knife, dinner; cutlery, set, part of
date: label: date made
content: 1846- 1890
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife, part of a matching set (see 1986.0531.050 fork). Straight 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 scratched and discolored, tang is rusted. Horn is scratched, cracked and chipped around edges, separated from tang.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “H. G. L & Co/SHEFFIELD”
label: Description
content: Maker is H. G. Long & Company, active in Sheffield, England ca 1846-present (now a division of H. M. Slater).
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: 1986.0531.049
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.049
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: 1/2 in x 9 3/8 in x 7/8 in; 1.27 cm x 23.8125 cm x 2.2225 cm