Dessert Knife
date: label: date made
content: after 1855
notes: label: Description
content: Straight steel blade with rounded tip. Blade, bolster, and tang are one piece of steel riveted with bone scales to form a tapered handle with rounded sides and butt. Scales are held in place with brass pins. Heavily scratched and stained, bone is crazed, yellowed, and separating from metal. Blade stamped: “MERIDEN CUTLERY/COMPANY”.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Meriden
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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: 1986.0531.119
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.531.119
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, dessert
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dessert; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bone (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 8 in x 1 in; .9525 cm x 20.32 cm x 2.54 cm