knife, dinner
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900- 1905
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife, silver-plated steel. Straight blade with rounded tip and “yankee” style bolster. Flat handle with rounded sides and butt decorated in low relief with art nouveau style whiplash curve and foliate decoration. Heavily scratched and tarnished, plate is worn.
label: Description
content: Engraved on butt in cursive: “Campi’s”
label: Description
content: Stamped on blade: “REED & BARTON”
label: Description
content: “Campi’s Restaurant” is advertised in a January 29, 1900 issue (Volume XVI Issue 12) of The Stanford Daily university newspaper.
label: Description
content: The company applied for and was granted several patents for the design and production of flatware ca 1902-1904, none of which are this design.
label: Description
content: Maker is Reed & Barton, active ca 1840-present in Taunton, Massachusetts.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Taunton
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: 1986.0531.082
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.082
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, silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 9 3/16 in x 3/4 in; .9525 cm x 23.33625 cm x 1.905 cm