Pocket Fruit Knife
date: label: date made
content: ca 1885
name: label: maker
content: Gorham Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Wavy-handle, pocket or folding fruit knife with identical, low-relief decorated scales featuring an oblong reserve at center and sprays of stylized flowers at ends; both reserves are empty. Geometric-patterning on backspring. Spear-point blade is struck on front or mark side below rectangular pull with Gorham trademark (right-facing lion passant in square, anchor in five-pointed shield, and gothic or Old English "G" in square) and on tang "STERLING" in incuse serif letters; tang back is stamped incuse "110".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Providence
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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: DL.200122.1746
label: catalog number
content: 200122.1746
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Knife
label: Object Name
content: knife, folding
label: Other Terms
content: Knife; Pen
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (blade, scales material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (backspring material)
label: Measurements
content: knife: 7.2 cm x 1.4 cm; 2 13/16 in x 9/16 in