knife, dinner
date: label: date made
content: after 1952
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Steel blade with slightly upturned false edge and rounded tip. 2/3 of cutting edge is lightly serrated on one side. Blade and tang are fitted into a cream-colored plastic handle cast in two pieces, seam at side. Tapered handle has straight sides and faceted and rounded butt. Top and bottom of handle has teardrop relief and teardrop impression decoration. Blade is scratched. Handle is soiled, discolored, crack along one side.
label: Description
content: Blade is etched: “Super Edge/STAINLESS STEEL/U.S.A.”
label: Description
content: Maker is the Utica Cutlery Company of Utica, New York (1910-present), founded as a pocketknife manufacturer. The company introduced fixed blade kitchen cutlery in 1918, and stainless steel flatware in 1952.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Utica
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1986.0531.222
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.222
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 (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 8 5/8 in x 3/4 in; .9525 cm x 21.9075 cm x 1.905 cm