knife, dessert
date: label: date made
content: ca 1920
name: label: importer
content: George Borgfeldt & Company
notes: label: Description
content: Dessert knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip. Blade and bolster are one piece of steel fitted into a tapered block bone handle with chamfered edges and a blunt butt. Blade is discolored and scratched, bone is yellowed and cracked near bolster.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “CELEBRATED/CUTLERY”
label: Description
content: Celebrated Cutlery was manufactured in Germany and Austria ca 1920 and imported by George Borgfeldt & Company of New York, a wholesaler and importer active ca 1895-1927.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
label: place made
content: Austria
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: 1986.0531.057
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.057
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, dessert
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: 1/2 in x 8 in x 3/4 in; 1.27 cm x 20.32 cm x 1.905 cm