knife
date: label: date made
content: ca 1860
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip is one piece of steel with full tang. Small, flat steel bolster is welded to tang in two pieces. Bone scales are riveted to tang with brass pins to form a tapered block handle with straight sides and blunt butt. Overall discoloration of metal, minor rust. Bone is yellowed and crazed, separating from the tang. Brass is corroded.
label: Description
content: Bone is incised: “WG”
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “J. RUSSELL & CO./GREEN RIVER WORKS”
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
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1986.0635.04
label: accession number
content: 1986.0635
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0635.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, dinner
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dinner; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bone (scales material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (pins material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 9 5/8 in x 1 in; 1.27 cm x 24.4475 cm x 2.54 cm