knife, dinner
date: label: date made
content: 1800- 1850
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Upturned steel blade with tapered, rounded tip. Blade, bolster, and tang are one piece of metal. Back of knife shows a "puddled" weld between the iron bolster and steel blade. Bone scales are riveted to the top and bottom of the tang with iron pins to form a tapered handle with rounded sides and a blunt butt. Metal is discolored, scratched, and has rust spot. Bone is discolored, browned, crazed, and is pulling away from the tang.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “[W?]ARRANTED”
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: 1986.0531.019
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.019
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, dinner
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dinner; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bone (scales material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (blade material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, iron (pins, bolster, tang material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 9 in x 1 3/8 in; 1.27 cm x 22.86 cm x 3.4925 cm