knife
date: label: date made
content: 1880 - 1900
name: label: maker
content: Derby Silver Co.
label: maker
content: Landers, Frary & Clark
notes: label: Description
content: Dessert knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip and “yankee” style bolster. Blade and bolster are one piece of steel with tang, inserted into tapered bone handle with rounded sides and butt. Tang is held in place with steel pin through side. Metal is discolored, rusted, bone is yellowed, crazed, and has long crack down one side.
label: Description
content: Blade is engraved: “DERBY SILVER CO” over an anchor.
label: Description
content: Maker is Derby Silver Company, active 1873-1933 in Connecticut.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Derby
topic: label: Subject
content: Eating
label: Subject
content: Knives
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0531.077
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.077
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dessert; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bone (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 8 1/4 in x 3/4 in; .9525 cm x 20.955 cm x 1.905 cm