knife, dinner; cutlery, set, part of
date: label: date made
content: 1860- 1890
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife, part of a matching set (see 1986.0531.048 fork). Upturned steel blade with rounded tip. Blade, bolster, and tang are one piece of steel. Horn scales are riveted to the top and bottom of the tang with brass pins to form a tapered block handle with chamfered edges and blunt butt. Blade is discolored with some rust spots, horn is cracked and chipped around edges.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “SANDERSON/SHEARSTEEL”
label: Description
content: Maker is possibly the Sanderson Brothers, active ca 1829-[unknown] in Sheffield, England.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Sheffield, Sheffield
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: 1986.0531.047
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.047
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, dinner
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dinner; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: horn (scales material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (pins material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 9 5/8 in x 1 in; .9525 cm x 24.4475 cm x 2.54 cm