knife, dessert; cutlery, set, part of
date: label: date made
content: 1870- 1880
notes: label: Description
content: Dessert knife, with matching fork (see 1986.0531.131), possibly made for a child. Straight steel blade with rounded tip fitted with pewter bolster. Blade and tang are one piece of steel inserted into a tapered bone handle with rounded sides and butt. Blade is scratched and discolored. Bolster is separating from handle. Bone is discolored with residue, crazed, has crack near bolster.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “J. RUSSELL & CO/GREEN RIVER WORKS”
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
label: See more items in
content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0531.130
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.531.130
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: Physical Description
content: metal, pewter (bolster material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 7 1/2 in x 3/4 in; .9525 cm x 19.05 cm x 1.905 cm