Pocket Fruit Knife
date: label: date made
content: ca 1910 - 1930
notes: label: Description
content: Two-blade, pocket or folding fruit knife with identical, low-relief decorated scales featuring circular lion's masks at both ends, the front or mark side engraved "C.P." in script at center. Contains a master spear-point blade and a long cuticle blade at same end; both have rectangular pulls. Two backsprings have grid- or tread-patterning on exterior. Spear-point blade is stamped "STERLING" in sans serif letters on tang front and "2 1" on tang back.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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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: DL.200122.1745
label: catalog number
content: 200122.1745
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Knife
label: Object Name
content: knife, folding
label: Other Terms
content: Knife; Pen
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (blades material)
label: Physical Description
content: nickel silver (scales material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (backsprings, liners material)
label: Measurements
content: knife: 7.4 cm; 2 15/16 in