knife, dinner
date: label: date made
content: after 1856
notes: label: Description
content: Dessert knife. Straight silver-plated blade with rounded tip and “yankee” style bolster. Blade and bolster are one piece of steel with tang, inserted into hard black rubber handle with rounded sides and butt. Heavily scratched overall, silver is worn off near cutting edge, tarnished.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “HARD RUBBER/CUTLERY Co”
label: Description
content: Could not locate any information on this company, but it may have been based out of New York. Hard plastic was patented in 1844 and was first used for knife handles circa 1856.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York
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: 1986.0531.075
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.075
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: rubber (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9/16 in x 7 15/16 in x 3/4 in; 1.42875 cm x 20.16125 cm x 1.905 cm