knife, dessert; cutlery, set, part of
date: label: date made
content: 1860- 1880
name: label: maker
content: Lamson & Goodnow
notes: label: Description
content: One of a set of four dessert knives (1986.0531.152-.55). Straight silver-plated steel blade with rounded tip and small “yankee” style bolster. Blade and bolster are one piece of steel fitted into an ivory handle with rounded sides and butt. Tang is held in place with a single steel pin through the side. Blade is scratched and tarnished. Ivory has crack down one side near pin.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “LAMSON GOODNOW & Co/S. FALLS WORKS”; partially worn.
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
label: See more items in
content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0531.155
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.531.155
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, dessert
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dessert; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ivory (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, silver-plated steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 7 3/4 in x 3/4 in; .9525 cm x 19.685 cm x 1.905 cm