knife, dinner
date: label: date made
content: ca 1912
name: label: maker
content: Landers, Frary & Clark
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with slightly pointed, rounded tip and “yankee” style bolster. Blade has slight “S” curve. Blade and bolster are one piece of steel with tang, fitted into celluloid handle with rounded sides and blunt butt. Handle has carved molding at top and bottom. Scratched and stained overall, minor rust on blade.
label: Description
content: Blade is etched: “UNIVERSAL/L.F.&C.”
label: Description
content: Maker is Landers, Frary & Clark, New Britain, Connecticut (c. 1862). In 1890, L. F. & C. took on the Trademark “Universal”, in 1965, General Electric acquired the company.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, New Britain
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: 1986.0531.065
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.065
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 (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic, celluloid (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 9 3/8 in x 13/16 in; .9525 cm x 23.8125 cm x 2.06375 cm