Chopping Knife
date: label: date made
content: 1845 - 1875
notes: label: Description
content: Chopping knife or small cleaver with trapezoidal blade; curved cutting edge rises up to an exposed tang, tapered rectangular in section, which is inserted into a turned baluster-shaped handle with a pair of grooves near its rounded end. Blade struck “L. F. STÅHLBERG / STÅHLFORS" in incuse serif letters.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Sweden: Södermanland, Eskilstuna
topic: label: Subject
content: Household Tools and Equipment
label: Subject
content: Food Processing
label: Subject
content: Knives
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Myrtle Z. Hough
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.136880.0001
label: catalog number
content: 136880.0001
label: accession number
content: 136880
objectType: label: Object Name
content: chopper
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (blade material)
label: Physical Description
content: beech (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 11 1/2 in x 2 3/8 in; 3.175 cm x 29.21 cm x 6.0325 cm