Pocket Fruit Knife
date: label: date made
content: ca 1850 - 1860
notes: label: Description
content: Bright cut, wavy fiddle pocket or folding fruit knife with the name "Anna" in script incorporated into the scrollwork on the front or mark side. Spear-point blade is struck on front below long rectangular pull with combined mark of a raised calligraphic "W(?)" in a hexagon placed sideways between two pseudo-hallmarks of a standing, spreadwing eagle and a right-facing female profile bust, both in ovals, above and below.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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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: DL.200122.1749
label: catalog number
content: 200122.1749
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Knife
label: Object Name
content: knife, folding
label: Other Terms
content: Knife; Pen
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (blade, scales material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (backspring material)
label: Measurements
content: knife: 8.2 cm; 3 1/4 in