Chopper
date: label: date made
content: ca 1875 - 1900
notes: label: Description
content: Top-handled chopping or mincing knife with single, curved-edge trapezoidal blade riveted to an incurved central shaft, lapped on blade front and secured with a copper washer to a swelled cylindrical wooden handle with raised rings near its ends. Blade struck "C.W.DUNLAP (arched) / NEW YORK (straight)" in incuse sans serif letters.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: place used
content: United States: New York, Newburgh
topic: label: Subject
content: Household Tools and Equipment
label: Subject
content: Food Processing
label: Subject
content: Knives
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. Daniel Gardner
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.366779
label: catalog number
content: 366779
label: accession number
content: 123794
objectType: label: Object Name
content: chopper, food
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (blade; shaft material)
label: Physical Description
content: beech (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: copper (washer material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 6 3/4 in x 5 7/8 in; 2.54 cm x 17.145 cm x 14.9225 cm