knife, dinner
date: label: date made
content: 1860- 1880
name: label: maker
content: Lamson & Goodnow
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with slightly-narrowed and rounded tip. Blade and partial tang are one piece of steel fitted into wooden block handle with straight sides, rounded edges, and blunt butt. Tang is held in place with iron pins. Heavily discolored and stained, wood is separating from tang.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “L & G MFG CO/CAST STEEL”
label: Description
content: Maker is Lamson & Goodnow Company, a manufacturer and wholesaler active in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts 1844-present.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Shelburne Falls
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: 1986.0531.171
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.171
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: wood (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, iron (pins material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 9 1/8 in x 7/8 in; .9525 cm x 23.1775 cm x 2.2225 cm