knife, dinner
date: label: date made
content: 1840- 1872
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip. Blade and “yankee” style bolster are one piece fitted into the top of a flat ivory handle with rounded edges. Scratched and discolored overall, yellowed ivory, bolster and blade have pulled away from the handle.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “MAPPIN . BROTHERS/QUEENS CUTLERY WORKS/SHEFFIELD”
label: Description
content: Maker is the Mappin Brothers, active 1810-1902 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
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0531.053
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.053
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: 1/4 in x 9 1/2 in x 7/8 in; .635 cm x 24.13 cm x 2.2225 cm