knife, dinner
date: label: date patented
content: ca 1857
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip and “yankee” style bolster. Blade and bolster are one piece of steel fitted into a brown hard rubber handle with rounded sides and butt. Blade is scratched and discolored with minor rust. Handle is nicked in two spots.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “INDIA RUBBER HANDLE/CUTLERY Co/C. POPRENHUSEN’S/PATENT MARCH 31, 1857”
label: Description
content: Patent:
label: Description
content: US 16955 A, March 31, 1857, Conrad Poppenhusen and C.F. Edward Simon of College Point, New York, for “Making Table-Knives”
label: Description
content: Maker is the India Rubber Handle Cutlery Company, active in the mid-19th century in New York.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place patented
content: United States: New York, Queens, College Point
label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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: 1986.0531.074
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.074
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, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/16 in x 10 1/8 in x 13/16 in; 1.11125 cm x 25.7175 cm x 2.06375 cm