knife, dinner
date: label: date made
content: 1868- 1886
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip. Blade and tang are one piece of steel, pewter bolster is soldered in place. Wooden scales are riveted to tang with pewter pins to form a block handle with rounded edges fitted with a rounded pewter pommel cap at butt. Blade is heavily scratched and discolored, rusted. Pewter and handle are discolored, wood is pulling away from tang, deeply scratched. (see 1986.0531.106)
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “BEAVER FALLSCUT.Co”
label: Description
content: Maker is the Beaver Falls Cutlery Company, active 1868-1886 in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Beaver Falls
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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: 1986.0531.107
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.531.107
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, steel (blade, tang material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, pewter (bolster, pommel cap, pins material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 9 1/2 in x 15/16 in; 1.27 cm x 24.13 cm x 2.38125 cm