Dinner knife
date: label: date made
content: after 1872
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip and “yankee” style bolster fitted into tapered ivory-colored handle of celluloid with rounded sides and butt. Blade and especially handle are scratched and abraded. Minor residue on blade. Heavy residue between handle and bolster.
label: Description
content: Etched on one side of blade: “STAINLESS”; on opposite side: “DEERFIELD CUTLERY CO./STAINLESS STEEL.”
label: Description
content: Maker is the Deerfield Cutlery Company. No information can be found on this company at this time, further research is needed.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Deerfield
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Bernard R. Levine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0763.14
label: accession number
content: 1988.0763
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0763.14
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, dinner
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dinner; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (blade, bolster, tang material)
label: Physical Description
content: celluloid (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 9 3/8 in x 3/4 in; 1.27 cm x 23.8125 cm x 1.905 cm