knife, dessert
date: label: date patented
content: 1860
name: label: maker
content: Lamson & Goodnow
notes: label: Description
content: Dessert knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip. Blade and tang one piece of steel. Tang has ivory scales riveted to top and bottom with brass pins to form a block handle with chamfered sides and rounded butt. Bolster is formed by two rectangular pieces of steel welded to stem and mortised into wooden scales. Heavily stained and scratched.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “LAMSON & GOODNOW MFG CO/PATENTED. MARCH 6 . 1860”
label: Description
content: Maker is Lamson & Goodnow Company, a manufacturer and wholesaler active in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts 1844-present.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Shelburne Falls
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0531.179
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.179
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, dessert
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dessert; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ivory (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (pins material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 8 1/8 in x 7/8 in; .9525 cm x 20.6375 cm x 2.2225 cm