knife, dinner
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900- 1905
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife, silver-plated steel. Straight blade with rounded tip. Hollow, baluster-shaped handle with decorated in low relief with art nouveau style whiplash curve and foliate decoration. Heavily scratched, discolored, and tarnished, plate is worn.
label: Description
content: Engraved on butt in cursive: “W”
label: Description
content: Etched on blade: “REED & BARTON”
label: Description
content: Stamped on side of handle: “PATAPPLFOR”
label: Description
content: The company applied for and was granted several patents for the design and production of 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: 1986.0531.081
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.081
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, dinner
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dinner; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 9 11/16 in x 15/16 in; 1.27 cm x 24.60625 cm x 2.38125 cm