knife, dessert
date: label: date made
content: 1860- 1880
name: label: maker
content: Lamson & Goodnow
notes: label: Description
content: Dessert knife, slight overall “S” shape. Upturned steel blade with rounded tip. Cylindrical bolster and blade are one piece of steel fitted into a horn handle. Slightly arched handle with straight sides and blunt butt. Tang is riveted in place with a brass pin. Scalloped pewter pommel cap is inlaid at butt. Blade has discoloration and rust spots, and is bent at tip. Handle has hole near pin, and crack near bolster. Pewter is nicked and discolored.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “LAMSON GOODNOW & Co/S. FALLS WORKS”
label: Description
content: Maker is Lamson & Goodnow Company, a manufacturer and wholesaler active in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts 1844-present.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Shelburne Falls
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: 1986.0531.148
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.531.148
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, dessert
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dessert; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: horn (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (pin material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, pewter (pommel material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 9 1/2 in x 1 1/8 in; 1.27 cm x 24.13 cm x 2.8575 cm