Dinner Knife
date: label: date made
content: ca 1846 - 1855
notes: label: Description
content: Straight steel blade with rounded tip and grooved bolster. Silver banded ferrule is fitted below bolster. Blade, bolster, and tang are one piece of steel inserted into an ivory block handle with carved and chamfered sides and blunt butt. Diamond is cut into butt. Blade may have originally been silver-plated. Steel is discolored, rusted in spots. Silver is tarnished. Ivory is yellowed, cracked near bolster. Blade stamped “PRATT ROPES&Co / AMERICAN CUTLERY”.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Meriden
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: 1986.0531.110
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.531.110
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dinner; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (blade material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (ferrule material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9/16 in x 10 5/16 in x 1 in; 1.42875 cm x 26.19375 cm x 2.54 cm