Dessert Knife
date: label: date made
content: 1900 - 1910
name: label: maker
content: Lamson & Goodnow
notes: label: Description
content: Dessert knife having a blunt-tip blade with integral single-groove ("Yankee") bolster and flat, rounded-edge ivory block handle; tang is secured with a single pin near center of handle. Incuse banded oval mark on blade with “LAMSON & GOODNOW / M.F.G. Co” in sans serif and serif letters surrounding a sideways fouled anchor.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Shelburne Falls
topic: label: Subject
content: Eating
label: Subject
content: Knives
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Food
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0531.174
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.174
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dessert; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel, silver-plated (blade material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (pin material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 7 7/8 in x 3/4 in; 1.27 cm x 20.0025 cm x 1.905 cm