knife, dinner
date: label: date made
content: ca 1850
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip is one piece of steel with tang. Dark wooden scales are riveted to tang with pewter pins to form a block handle with rounded sides. Handle is fitted with a pewter bolster and rounded pewter pommel cap. Steel is scratched, discolored, with spots of rust. Pewter has nicks, scratches, and spots of green corrosion. Wood is scratched, nicked.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “RIVERSIDE KNIFE CO.”
label: Description
content: Maker is the Riverside Knife Company, active in Croydon, New Hampshire circa 1850.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Hampshire, Croydon
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: 1986.0531.072
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.072
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, dinner
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dinner; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, pewter (pins material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 9 1/2 in x 7/8 in; 1.27 cm x 24.13 cm x 2.2225 cm