knife, dinner
date: label: date made
content: 1860- 1880
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Straight silver-plated steel blade with rounded tip. Blade and “yankee” style bolster are one piece of steel with tang fitted into tapered ivory block handle with rounded sides and butt. Blade is heavily scratched, tarnished. Ivory is yellowed and discolored overall, minor crazing.
label: Description
content: Stamped on blade: “VANDERSLICE & CO”
label: Description
content: Maker is possibly Vanderslice & Company, a San Francisco-based manufacturer and dealer active circa 1863-1908.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, San Francisco
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: 1986.0531.232
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.232
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, silver (overall 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