knife, dinner
date: label: date made
content: 1860- 1880
name: label: maker
content: Lamson & Goodnow
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip and “yankee” style bolster. Blade and bolster are one piece of steel with tang fitted into tapered ivory block handle with rounded sides and butt. Tang is held in place with a steel pin through side. Blade and bolster have minor overall discoloration. Ivory is yellowed and has several small cracks at butt and one side near pin. A larger crack is on the opposite side from bolster to butt.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “LAMSON GOODNOW & Co/S. FALLS WORKS”
label: Description
content: Maker is Lamson & Goodnow Company, a manufacturer and wholesaler active in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts 1844-present.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Shelburne 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: 1986.0531.150
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.531.150
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: 5/8 in x 10 1/2 in x 1 in; 1.5875 cm x 26.67 cm x 2.54 cm