knife, dinner
date: label: date made
content: 1600-1700
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Upturned steel blade with widened, rounded tip. Blade, bolster, and tang are one piece of metal; bolster and tang are iron. Bone scales are riveted to the top and bottom of the tang with iron pins to form a tapered handle with rounded sides and a rounded butt. Scales are inscribed with vertical lines. Metal is heavily discolored, scratched; tang and bolster are rusted. Bone is crazed, yellowed, cracked, and heavily worn, especially at butt. Reddish stain on butt may indicate a missing iron pommel. No mark.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Sheffield, Sheffield
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: 1986.0531.017
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.017
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, iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: bone (scales material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 10 in x 1 in; 1.905 cm x 25.4 cm x 2.54 cm