knife, dessert
date: label: date patented
content: ca 1866
name: label: maker
content: Landers, Frary & Clark
notes: label: Description
content: Dessert knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip. Blade and tang are one piece of steel fitted with pewter bolster. Bone scales are riveted to tang with brass pins to form a block handle with flat sides, chamfered edges, and a rounded butt. Minor scratches and discoloration overall. Greenish residue surrounding pewter.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “LANDERS FRARY & CLARK/PATENTED SEPT. 25, 1866”
label: Description
content: Patent:
label: Description
content: US58242 A, Sept. 25, 1866, James D. Frary, Hartford, Connecticut, for “Improvement in manufacture of knives and forks”
label: Description
content: Maker is Landers, Frary & Clark, New Britain, Connecticut (c. 1862). In the 1890s, took on the name “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: 1986.0531.061
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.061
objectType: label: Object Name
content: kife, dessert
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dessert; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, pewter (bolster material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: bone (scales material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (pins material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/16 in x 8 1/16 in x 13/16 in; 1.11125 cm x 20.47875 cm x 2.06375 cm