Child's Knife
date: label: date made
content: ca 1850
notes: label: Description
content: Small, full-tang, blunt-blade knife with applied bolsters and rounded bone scales inlaid with a large brass dot on front and secured by two brass pins. Mark or front side of blade stamped "FOR A GOOD (arched) / CHILD” in incuse serif letters. No marks. From a two-piece child's or youth's flatware set (knife and fork), 1986.0531.092-.093.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
topic: label: Subject
content: Children
label: Subject
content: Eating
label: Subject
content: Food Culture
label: Subject
content: Gifts & Presents
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
label: See more items in
content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0531.092
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.092
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Child's; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (blade and tang; bolsters material)
label: Physical Description
content: bone (scales material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (inlay; pins material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9/16 in x 6 3/4 in x 13/16 in; 1.42875 cm x 17.145 cm x 2.06375 cm