knife, dinner
date: label: date made
content: 1876- 1881
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Straight, silver-plated steel blade with rounded tip and pewter bolster soldered in place. Blade and tang are one piece of steel fitted into wooden handle with rounded sides and rounded pewter pommel cap at butt. Bolster and pommel cap have clover shapes inlaid into wood on front and back of handle (now missing from bolster). Blade is heavily discolored, and much of the silver plate is scraped off. Wood is cracked near areas of missing inlay.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “FRARY CUTLERY CO/PAT JULY 18,1876”
label: Description
content: Patent:
label: Description
content: US179927 A, July 18, 1876, John B. H. Leonard, assignor to the Frary Cutlery Company, Bridgeport, Connecticut, for “Improvement in table-cutlery”
label: Description
content: Maker is the Frary Cutlery Company, Bridgeport, Connecticut, established in 1876 by James D. Frary, one of the founders of Landers, Frary & Clark. Frary sold the company in 1881 to Trunk, Bliss, and Healy and formed James D. Frary & Son Company.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Bridgeport
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: 1986.0531.109
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.531.109
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, steel (blade, tang material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, pewter (bolster, pommel cap material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/16 in x 9 5/8 in x 1 in; 1.11125 cm x 24.4475 cm x 2.54 cm