knife
date: label: date made
content: ca 1880
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip is one piece of steel with full tang. Exotic dark brown-black wooden scales are riveted to tang with steel pins to form tapered block handle with rounded sides and blunt butt. Two-piece pewter bolster. Blade is heavily corroded and rusted. Steel pins are heavily rusted.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “HANOVER CUTLERY/CO.”
label: Description
content: Maker is Hanover Cutlery Company. No info could be located on this company at this time, further research is needed.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Bernard R. Levine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0635.08
label: accession number
content: 1986.0635
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0635.08
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, tropical (scales material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 9 5/8 in x 1 in; 1.27 cm x 24.4475 cm x 2.54 cm