knife, dessert
date: label: date made
content: 1866- 1890
notes: label: Description
content: Dessert knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip. Blade, bolster, and tang are one piece of steel. Wooden scales are riveted to the top and bottom of the tang with brass pins to form a tapered block handle with straight sides and a blunt butt. Metal is heavily discolored with spots of rust. Wood is cracked on one side. Brass pins are corroded.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “HARGREAVES/SMITH&Co/BEST CAST STEEL”
label: Description
content: Maker is Hargreaves, Smith & Company, active in Sheffield, England ca 1866-1920.
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0531.034
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.034
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: wood (scales material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (pins material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 8 in x 3/4 in; .9525 cm x 20.32 cm x 1.905 cm