knife, dinner
date: label: date made
content: 1834- 1850
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner Knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip. Blade and “yankee” style bolster are one piece of steel fitted into tapered wooden block handle with straight sides and rounded butt. Tang is held in place with brass pin through the side. Blade is discolored and heavily scratched with minor rust spots. Handle is scratched. Brass pin is corroded.
label: Description
content: Blade is etched: “J. RUSSELL & CO/1834/GREEN RIVER WORKS” partially worn.
label: Description
content: Maker is John Russell & Company, Turner Falls, Massachusetts, 1834-present.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts
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: 1986.0531.144
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.531.144
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, dinner
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dinner; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (pin material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 10 1/2 in; 1.5875 cm x 26.67 cm