knife, dinner
date: label: date made
content: 1800- 1899
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip. Blade, bolster, tang, and butt are one piece of steel. Ivory scales are riveted to the tang with steel pins. Block handle has curved sides with chamfered edges and rounded butt. Scratched overall and discolored. Ivory is yellowed and crazed, cracked near edges. White residue on one side. No mark.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: 1986.0531.076
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.076
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, dinner
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dinner; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ivory (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 9 3/8 in x 7/8 in; .9525 cm x 23.8125 cm x 2.2225 cm