knife, dinner
date: label: date made
content: 1770-1800
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Upturned steel blade with rounded tip. Blade, bolster, and tang are one piece of metal. Back of knife shows a "puddled" weld between the iron bolster and steel blade. Bone scales are riveted to the top and bottom of the tang with iron pins to form a block handle with rounded sides and a blunt butt. Metal is heavily scratched and stained, with rusted weld near bolster. Bone is crazed, discolored, and chipped at butt; also pulling away from tang.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “PARIS”
label: Description
content: Maker is possibly Justice Paris, a manufacturer active in Sheffield, England towards the end of the 18th century.
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: 1986.0531.020
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.020
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, dinner
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dinner; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bone (scales material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, iron (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 9 1/4 in x 1 in; 1.27 cm x 23.495 cm x 2.54 cm