knife, dessert
date: label: date made
content: 1851- 1858
notes: label: Description
content: Dessert knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip and squared bolster. Blade, bolster, and tang are one piece of steel fitted into a wooden tapered block handle with straight sides and a rounded butt. Tang is held in place with a brass pin. Metal has scratches and minor discoloration. Wood has small crack on underside near bolster. Brass is corroded.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “SOUTH RIVER CUTLERY Co/CONWAY MASS”
label: Description
content: Maker is the South River Cutlery Company, in business 1851-1858 in Conway, Massachusetts.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Conway
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: 1986.0531.104
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.531.104
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, dessert
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dessert; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (pin material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 8 in x 3/4 in; 1.27 cm x 20.32 cm x 1.905 cm