knife, dessert
date: label: date made
content: before 1910
notes: label: Description
content: Dessert Knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip. Blade and bolster are one piece of steel with tang, fitted into ivory handle with straight sides and rounded butt. Tang is held in place with a single steel pin through side. Metal and ivory are both heavily discolored, scratched.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “A. BARRETT & SONS/63 & 64 PICADILLY”
label: Description
content: Maker is unknown (according to the seller Sheffield-made).
label: Description
content: A. Barrett & Sons were dealers, the business was founded circa 1854 and was located at 63 & 64 Piccadilly from 1878-1910, when they relocated to 157-158 Piccadilly.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Sheffield, Sheffield
label: place sold
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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: 1986.0531.058
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.058
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, dessert
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dessert; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ivory (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/16 in x 8 5/16 in x 3/4 in; 1.11125 cm x 21.11375 cm x 1.905 cm