knife, table
date: label: date made
content: after 1917
notes: label: Description
content: Table knife. Straight stainless steel blade with rounded tip. Blade and bolster are one piece of metal with tang, fitted into celluloid handle with straight sides and rounded butt. Metal and handle are scratched overall. Blade is warped and has small chips at tip. Handle is crazed, separating from bolster.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “X/Y/SHEFFIELD STEEL PRODUCTS LTD/SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND/FIRTH/BREARLEY/STAINLESS”
label: Description
content: Maker is Firth Brearley Sheffield Steel Products Limited. Harry Brearley is credited with developing what is widely regarded as the first ‘rustless’ or stainless steel in 1913. Four years later, Brearley established the Firth-Brearley Stainless Steel Syndicate with Thomas Firth & Sons Limited to handle licensing Sheffield firms of stainless steel in USA, Canada, Italy, France, and Japan.
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: 1986.0531.060
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.060
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, table
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Table; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic, celluloid (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 9 1/8 in x 3/4 in; 1.27 cm x 23.1775 cm x 1.905 cm