Dinner knife
date: label: date made
content: ca 1886- 1888
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip is welded into rounded pewter bolster. Full tang has bone scales riveted with steel pins to form a tapered block handle with rounded sides and blunt butt. Substantial discoloration and pitting on blade, minor rust. Bone is yellowed and crazed, loss at butt. Missing one steel pin.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “STACEY BROS/ “ARK” WORKS/SHEFFIELD”
label: Description
content: Maker is the Stacey Brothers, Sheffield, England, active circa 1886-1888.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Sheffield, Sheffield
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: 1988.0763.11
label: accession number
content: 1988.0763
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0763.11
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 (blade, tang, pins material)
label: Physical Description
content: bone (scales material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, pewter (bolster material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 8 5/8 in x 7/8 in; .9525 cm x 21.9075 cm x 2.2225 cm