knife, dinner; cutlery, set, part of
date: label: date made
content: ca 1834
notes: label: Description
content: One of a set of six dinner knives (1986.0531.138-143). Straight, silver-plated steel blade with rounded tip and “yankee” style bolster which are one piece of steel fitted into tapered ivory handle with rounded sides and rounded butt. Blade is scratched and tarnished. Black residue on cutting edge. Ivory has minor yellowing and discoloration.
label: Description
content: Blade is etched: “1834/J. RUSSELL & CO./12”
label: Description
content: Maker is John Russell & Company, Turner Falls, Massachusetts, 1834-present.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts
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: 1986.0531.142
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.531.142
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, silver-plated (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 9 3/4 in x 7/8 in; 1.27 cm x 24.765 cm x 2.2225 cm