Dinner knife
date: label: date patented
content: 1867
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Straight steel blade is inserted into “yankee” style bolster of while metal handle with straight sides and rounded butt. Ivory panels are inlaid into handle (one is missing, wood interior is exposed). Steel blade was possibly silver-plated, now heavily discolored and worn, minor rust. Heavy discoloration on handle. Ivory is yellowed and crazed.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “GOODELL CO./PAT.APR.2, 1867.”; patent could not be located at this time, further research is needed.
label: Description
content: Maker is the Goodell Company, founded in 1856 by David Harvey Goodell in Antrim, New Hampshire. The company merged with Woods Cutlery circa 1870.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Hampshire, Antrim
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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: 1988.0763.12
label: accession number
content: 1988.0763
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0763.12
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 material)
label: Physical Description
content: white metal (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (scales material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 10 1/8 in x 7/8 in; 1.27 cm x 25.7175 cm x 2.2225 cm