knife, dinner
date: label: date made
content: 1860- 1880
name: label: maker
content: Lamson & Goodnow
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip and long tang with wooden scales riveted with steel pin to form block handle with rounded sides and butt. Pewter bolster has lattice decoration inlaid into wood; matching inlay attached to pewter pommel cap. Scratched overall, minor rust, discoloration on metal.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “LAMSON GOODNOW & CO/S. FALLS WORKS”
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
label: See more items in
content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0531.168
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.168
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, dinner
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dinner; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, pewter (bolster, pommel cap material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (scales material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 9 1/2 in x 7/8 in; 1.27 cm x 24.13 cm x 2.2225 cm