knife, dinner
date: label: date made
content: 1868- 1886
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip. Blade and tang are one piece of steel, pewter bolster is soldered in place. Wooden scales are riveted to tang with pewter pins to form a block handle with rounded edges fitted with a rounded pewter pommel cap at butt. Blade is scratched and discolored with some spots of rust. Bolster, handle, and butt show some scratches and wear. (see 1986.0531.107)
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “BEAVER FALLS/CUTLERY COMPANY.PA”
label: Description
content: Maker is the Beaver Falls Cutlery Company, active 1868-1886 in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Beaver Falls
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1986.0531.106
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.531.106
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, pewter (bolster, pommel cap, pins material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (blade, tang material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/16 in x 9 11/16 in x 7/8 in; 1.11125 cm x 24.60625 cm x 2.2225 cm