knife
date: label: date made
content: ca 1860
notes: label: Description
content: Dessert knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip is one piece with full tang. Bone scales are riveted to the tang with brass pins to form a tapered block handle with chamfered edges and blunt butt. Semi-circular brass piece is mortised into bone at bolster on front and back of handle and held in place with a brass pin. Minor stains and rust on steel. Bone is yellowed and crazed.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “J. RUSSELL & Co./GREEN RIVER WORKS”; partially worn.
label: Description
content: Maker is John Russell & Company, Turner Falls, Massachusetts, 1834-present.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Bernard R. Levine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0635.03
label: accession number
content: 1986.0635
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0635.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, dessert
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dessert; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bone (scales material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (blade, tang material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (bolster, pins material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 8 in x 7/8 in; 1.27 cm x 20.32 cm x 2.2225 cm