knife, dessert
date: label: date made
content: ca 1880
name: label: maker
content: Moulson Brothers
notes: label: Description
content: Dessert knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip. Blade and bolster are one piece of steel fitted into a block bone handle with a blunt butt. Tang is held in place with a single brass pin. Blade is scratched, discolored, with some small rust spots. Bone is crazed and yellowed, with long crack on one side.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “X L N T/MOULSON BROTHERS/UNION WORKS . SHEFFIELD”
label: Description
content: “X L N T” is the trademark for Adolph Kastor & Brothers, a wholesaler and importer active 1876-ca 1947 in New York, New York.
label: Description
content: Maker is the Moulson Brothers, active 1828-1912 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
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0531.052
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.052
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, dessert
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dessert; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bone (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (pin material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 8 3/8 in x 3/4 in; .9525 cm x 21.2725 cm x 1.905 cm