knife, dinner
date: label: date made
content: 1868- 1886
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip and “yankee” style bolster. Blade, bolster, and tang are one piece of steel fitted into a bone block handle with rounded sides and butt. Metal is discolored and rusted, bone is yellowed, crazed, and has a long crack on one side near bolster.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “BEAVER FALLS CUTLERY CO./PENNA” within a banner.
label: Description
content: Maker is the Beaver Falls Cutlery Company, active 1868-1886 in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Beaver Falls
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: 1986.0531.108
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.531.108
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, dinner
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dinner; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bone (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (blade, tang material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/16 in x 9 1/4 in x 13/16 in; 1.11125 cm x 23.495 cm x 2.06375 cm