Child's Knife
date: label: date made
content: 1888 - 1890
notes: label: Description
content: Engraved "Lily" pattern child's knife; made as one piece with blunt blade and flared, rounded handle having a cordate-pattern stamped bolster and engraved "Charlie." in script lengthwise on back of terminal. Bright cut on front with a right-curving raceme of lily-of-the-valley above three leaves, quatrefoil-in-circle motif and pendant line of paired leaves on handle, and matching downward-curved blossoms and trefoil-in-semicircle motif on blade. Back of handle struck "TOWLE.MF'G.CO" in incuse serif letters. From a three-piece child's or youth's flatware set (knife, fork, spoon), 1979.0003.01-.03.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Newburyport
label: place owned; place used
content: United States: Massachusetts
topic: label: decorative motif
content: Flowers
label: Subject
content: Boys
label: Subject
content: Children
label: Subject
content: Eating
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Food
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: C. Malcolm Watkins
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0003.01
label: accession number
content: 1979.0003
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0003.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife
label: Object Type
content: flatware
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: knife: 18.7 cm x 2 cm; 7 3/8 in x 13/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/8 in x 7 5/16 in x 3/4 in; .3175 cm x 18.6055 cm x 1.905 cm