Dinner knife
date: label: date made
content: 1900- 1920
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip fitted into pewter (?) bolster. Blade and tang are one piece of steel inserted into black wooden handle with rounded sides and butt. Nickel silver ferrule is decorated with low-relief band of six-petaled flowers. Tang is held in place with single steel pin through side. Blade is scratched, minor corrosion. Bolster is scratched and nicked. Small chip in handle near pin.
label: Description
content: Blade is etched: “E. FELSENHELD,/MAKER/NEW YORK.”
label: Description
content: Maker is E. Felsenheld, New York, New York/Germany, a manufacturer and importer active circa 1900-1920.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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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: 1988.0763.13
label: accession number
content: 1988.0763
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0763.13
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 (blade, tang, pin material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, pewter (bolster material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, nickel silver (ferrule material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 9 5/8 in x 7/8 in; .9525 cm x 24.4475 cm x 2.2225 cm