Dessert Knife
date: label: date made
content: ca 1846 - 1855
notes: label: Description
content: Straight steel blade with rounded tip. Blade and rectangular bolster are one piece of steel with tang fitted into a tapered ivory handle with straight sides and rounded butt. Metal has minor discoloration, some residues on blade. Ivory is yellowed. Blade stamped: “PRATT ROPES WEBB&Co / AMERICAN CUTLERY”. With matching fork, 1986.0531.114.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Meriden
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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: 1986.0531.113
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.531.113
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dessert; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (blade material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 7 3/4 in x 7/8 in; .9525 cm x 19.685 cm x 2.2225 cm