Cheese knife
date: label: date made
content: 1870- 1880
notes: label: Description
content: Cheese knife. Upturned silver-plated steel blade with blunt clip point. Straight brass handle with blunt butt has mottled surface overall; low-relief decoration of a hen and a rooster walking among a flower garden (on each side). Silver is tarnished and worn. Crack in handle near butt.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “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
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Bernard R. Levine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0763.01
label: accession number
content: 1988.0763
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0763.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, cheese
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Cheese; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, silver-plated (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 7 1/4 in x 3/4 in; .635 cm x 18.415 cm x 1.905 cm