Pocket Knife
date: label: date made
content: ca 1920 - 1930
notes: label: Description
content: Two-blade, clipped-corner, tapered rectangular folding knife; the front or mark side has an oval reserve engraved "LT" in script against a spot-hammered or planished ground bordered by gold, bright-cut scrollwork, while the pile or back side scale features engine-turned bands. Contains two drop-point blades at opposite ends, one large and one small. Shackle or bail at narrow end. Larger blade is struck incuse on tang front "SHEFFIELD" in sans serif letters. Shackle exterior marked "GOLD FILLED R.M.C."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place blade made
content: United Kingdom: England, Sheffield, Sheffield
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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: DL.200122.1742
label: catalog number
content: 200122.1742
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Knife
label: Object Name
content: knife, folding
label: Other Terms
content: Knife; Pen
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (blades, spring material)
label: Physical Description
content: silver (scales material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (scales material)
label: Measurements
content: knife: 6.7 cm; 2 5/8 in