Pocket Fruit Knife
date: label: date made
content: ca 1845 - 1850
notes: label: Description
content: Thread-and-bead-bordered, wavy-handle pocket or fruit knife with low-relief floral clusters at ends and centers of handle. Spear-point blade is struck on front below long rectangular pull with combined mark of a left-facing rooster in oval, the raised roman letters "T / & / W" in a clipped-corner, concave-sided rectangle, and a left-facing hammer-in hand in oval; all three marks face handle.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, North Attleboro
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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: DL.200122.1750
label: catalog number
content: 200122.1750
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Knife
label: Object Name
content: knife, folding
label: Other Terms
content: Knife; Pen
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (blade, scales material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (backspring material)
label: Measurements
content: knife: 7.3 cm; 2 7/8 in