knife
date: label: date made
content: after 1829
notes: label: Description
content: Straight steel blade with rounded tip. Blade and bolster are one piece with tang; back of knife shows a "puddled" weld between the iron bolster and steel blade. Bone scales are riveted to tang with brass pins to form a block handle with rounded sides and blunt butt. Overall discoloration and minor rust on metal. Bone is yellowed and crazed; separating from the tang.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “SANDERSONS/SHEFFIELD”
label: Description
content: Maker is possibly the Sanderson Brothers (formerly Naylor & Sanderson), active in Sheffield, England ca 1829-present.
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
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: 1986.0635.02
label: accession number
content: 1986.0635
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0635.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, dessert
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dessert; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bone (scales material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (blade; tang material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, iron (bolster material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (pins material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 8 1/4 in x 7/8 in; .9525 cm x 20.955 cm x 2.2225 cm