knife, dessert
date: label: date made
content: 1860- 1880
notes: label: Description
content: Dessert knife (similar to 1986.0531.125-.126), possibly intended for a child. Straight steel blade with rounded tip and rectangular bolster. Blade and bolster are one piece of steel with tang inserted into tapered ivory block handle with straight sides and rounded butt. Tang is held in place with steel pin through side. Metal is pitted, stained, and scratched. Ivory is yellowed and crazed, separating from tang and bolster.
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0531.127
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.531.127
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: 3/8 in x 7 3/4 in x 3/4 in; .9525 cm x 19.685 cm x 1.905 cm