knife, dinner
date: label: date made
content: 1875- 1890
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip. Blade and bolster are one piece of steel fitted into a conical horn handle with a pointed iron pommel. Blade is scratched, discolored, and has some rust spots. Horn is scratched, with crack on one side near bolster.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “W. R/HUMPHREYS&COMPY/CUTLERS SHEFFIELD”
label: Description
content: Maker is W. R. Humphreys & Company, active ca 1875-present 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
label: See more items in
content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0531.051
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.051
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, dinner
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dinner; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: horn (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, iron (pommel material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/8 in x 9 3/8 in x 1 in; 2.8575 cm x 23.8125 cm x 2.54 cm