knife, dinner
date: label: date made
content: ca 1879
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip. Blade and tang are one piece of steel with pewter bolster. Bone scales are riveted to the tang with brass pins to form a tapered block handle with rounded sides and a blunt butt fitted with a pewter pommel cap. Metal is scratched and discolored. Corrosion around brass pins, hammered dents on pommel cap.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “ASSOCIATION/1879”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: 1986.0531.102
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.531.102
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, pewter (bolster, pommel cap material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (blade material)
label: Physical Description
content: bone (scales material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (pins material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/16 in x 9 9/16 in x 1 in; 1.11125 cm x 24.28875 cm x 2.54 cm