knife, dinner
date: label: date made
content: after 1879
notes: label: Description
content: One-armed man’s knife. Short, upturned steel blade with three tines at tip. Blade and “yankee” style bolster are one piece of steel fitted into an ivory-colored celluloid handle with rounded sides and butt. Scratched overall, celluloid is darkened and starting to separate from the bolster.
label: Description
content: Blade is etched: “RUSSELL/STAINLESS”; with an arrow through the “R”
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
label: See more items in
content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0531.224
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.224
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: plastic, celluloid (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 8 1/4 in x 2 in; .9525 cm x 20.955 cm x 5.08 cm