knife, dinner
date: label: date made
content: 1837- 1890
name: label: maker
content: Joseph Rodgers & Sons
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip. Blade and bolster are one piece fitted into the top of a square block ivory handle with rounded butt. Scratched and discolored overall, yellowed ivory, deep crack down center of handle.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “V R/JOSEPH RODGERS & SONS/CUTLERS TO HER MAJESTY”; with their trademark, the Maltese cross and star.
label: Description
content: Maker is Joseph Rodgers & Sons, active 1682-1971 in Sheffield, England.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Sheffield, Sheffield
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: 1986.0531.055
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.055
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, dinner
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dinner; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ivory (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 9 7/8 in x 7/8 in; 1.27 cm x 25.0825 cm x 2.2225 cm