knife, dinner
date: label: date made
content: 1853- 1872
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip and “yankee” style bolster. Blade and bolster are one piece of steel with tang, fitted into an ivory block handle with rounded sides and butt. Tang is held in place with a steel pin. Metal is pitted, scratched, and discolored. Ivory is yellowed, crazed, and has several cracks.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “HASSAM BROTHERS/BOSTON”
label: Description
content: The Hassam Brother (Kingman & Hassam) were retailers active circa 1853-1872 in Boston, Massachusetts.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place retailed
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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: 1986.0531.071
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.071
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, steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 9 in x 13/16 in; .9525 cm x 22.86 cm x 2.06375 cm