Dessert knife
date: label: date made
content: 1866- 1882
notes: label: Description
content: Dessert knife, one of a set of six (1988.763.4-9). Straight steel blade with rounded tip and “yankee” style bolster fitted into tapered ivory handle with rounded sides and butt. Tang is held in place with steel pin through side of handle. Blade is scratched and abraded, with minor corrosion and rust. Ivory is yellowed, small crack near pin. Steel pin through handle is rusted.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “CLEMENT HAWKES /& MAYNARD”; worn away, difficult to read.
label: Description
content: Maker is the Clement Hawkes & Maynard Manufacturing Company, founded in 1866 in Northampton, Massachusetts. The company was reorganized circa 1882 as the Clement Cutlery Company.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Northampton
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: 1988.0763.04
label: accession number
content: 1988.0763
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0763.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, dessert
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dessert; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 7 7/8 in x 3/4 in; .9525 cm x 20.0025 cm x 1.905 cm