Pocket Knife
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
notes: label: Description
content: Two-blade folding knife with identical, narrow U-shaped scales composed of pierced and engraved scrollwork. Contains a cuticle blade and a pen blade on opposite sides of the same end that open out from the rounded top. Jump ring for hanging. Both scales struck incuse at bottom center "ITALY". Cuticle blade struck incuse on tang front "BT" in serif letters.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Italy
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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: DL.200122.1738
label: catalog number
content: 200122.1738
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Knife
label: Object Name
content: knife, folding
label: Other Terms
content: Knife; Pen
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (blades, scales material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (hanging ring material)
label: Measurements
content: knife: 2 in x 15/16 in; 5.08 cm x 2.3114 cm