Dinner Knife
date: label: date made
content: after 1867
notes: label: Description
content: Straight silver-plated steel blade with rounded tip. Blade and tang are one piece of steel with pewter bolster and pommel cap welded in place and wooden scales riveted onto tang with brass pins. Handle has rounded sides, blunt butt. Heavily scratched and worn overall. Metal has white paint spots and minor rust spots. Brass is corroded. Blade etched: “MERIDEN CUTLERY/COMPANY”.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Meriden
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: 1986.0531.121
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.531.121
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: wood (scales material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, pewter (bolster, pommel cap material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (pins material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 8 3/4 in x 3/4 in; 1.27 cm x 22.225 cm x 1.905 cm