knife, dinner
date: label: date made
content: 1861- 1880
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip, “yankee” style bolster. Blade, bolster, and tang are one piece of steel fitted into an ivory tapered block handle with a rounded butt. Tang is held in place with a steel pin. Metal has minor scratches and discoloration. Ivory has minor discoloration and crazing.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “LATHROP & BARTON/WEST WINSTED . CT”
label: Description
content: Maker is Lathrop & Barton, active in Winsted, Connecticut ca 1861-1880.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Winsted
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: 1986.0531.103
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.531.103
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, dinner
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dinner; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ivory (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 9 in x 13/16 in; .9525 cm x 22.86 cm x 2.06375 cm