knife, dinner
date: label: date made
content: 1816- 1850
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Overall S-shape, with silver-plated steel blade, upturned with rounded tip. Blade and bolster are one piece fitted into the top of a polished stag horn and held in place with a single brass pin. The butt is fitted with a rounded pommel, secured with two iron pins. Stained and scratched overall, plate is worn off the edges of the blade, and the pommel is loose.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “Wm GREAVES & SONS”
label: Description
content: Maker is William Greaves & Sons, active 1816-1850 in Sheffield, England.
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0531.036
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.036
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, dinner
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dinner; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver-plated steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: horn (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (pin material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 9 1/2 in x 1 in; 1.5875 cm x 24.13 cm x 2.54 cm