knife, butter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900- 1905
notes: label: Description
content: Butter knife, nickel silver. Upturned blade with rounded tip. Baluster-shaped handle decorated in low relief with art nouveau style whiplash curve and foliate decoration. Heavily scratched and tarnished.
label: Description
content: Engraved on butt in cursive: “W”
label: Description
content: Stamped into transition: “REED&BARTON/9/PATAPPL’DFOR”
label: Description
content: The company applied for and was granted several design patents for flatware ca 1902-1904, none of which are this design.
label: Description
content: Maker is Reed & Barton, active ca 1840-present in Taunton, Massachusetts.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Taunton
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: 1986.0531.083
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.083
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, butter
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Butter; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, nickel silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/8 in x 5 15/16 in x 11/16 in; .3175 cm x 15.08125 cm x 1.74625 cm