knife, dinner
date: label: date made
content: 1837- 1890
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip. Blade, bolster, and tang are one piece of steel fitted into a tapered block handle with faceted sides and a blunt butt. Tang is held in place with a single brass pin. Metal is scratched with minor discoloration. Brass is corroded.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “V [crown] R/JOHN ASKHAM/SHEFFIELD”
label: Description
content: Maker is Frost, Askham & Mosforth, manufacturers active in Sheffield, England and New York ca 1820-1900.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Sheffield, Sheffield
label: place made
content: United States: New York
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: 1986.0531.035
label: accession number
content: 1987.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.035
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, brass (pin material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 9 3/8 in x 7/8 in; 1.905 cm x 23.8125 cm x 2.2225 cm