knife
date: label: date made
content: 1850- 1860
notes: label: Description
content: Dessert knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip and canted bolster are one piece of steel with full tang. Bone scales are riveted to tang with brass pins to form a tapered block handle with straight sides and rounded butt. Minor pitting and discoloration on metal. Bone is yellowed and crazed, minor separation from tang.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “NEW YORK KNIFE Co./WALDEN N.Y.”
label: Description
content: Maker is the New York Knife Company, founded in Matteswan, New York by English cutlers. The company relocated to Walden, New York in 1856, and remained in business until circa 1931.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Walden
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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: 1987.0377.01
label: accession number
content: 1987.0377
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0377.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, dessert
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bone (scales material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (pins material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 8 in x 3/4 in; .635 cm x 20.32 cm x 1.905 cm