knife
date: label: date made
content: ca 1870
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip is inserted into pewter bolster fitted onto brown-black tapered hard rubber handle with rounded sides and butt. Scratched overall. Rust on blade.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “J. RUSSELL & CO./GREEN RIVER WORKS”
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: 1986.0635.05
label: accession number
content: 1986.0635
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0635.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, dinner
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dinner; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: pewter (bolster material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 10 1/8 in x 7/8 in; .9525 cm x 25.7175 cm x 2.2225 cm