knife, dinner
date: label: date made
content: 1860- 1880
name: label: maker
content: Lamson & Goodnow
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip and long tang with wooden scales riveted with brass pins to form block handle with straight sides, chamfered edges, and blunt butt. Scratched and stained overall, “X” shaped incision on both sides of handle. Scales are separating from the tang.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “LAMSON & GOODNOW MFG CO/S. FALLS WORKS”
label: Description
content: Maker is Lamson & Goodnow Company, a manufacturer and wholesaler active in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts 1844-present.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Shelburne Falls
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
label: See more items in
content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0531.169
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.169
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, dinner
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dinner; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (scales material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (pins material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 9 1/2 in x 1 in; 1.27 cm x 24.13 cm x 2.54 cm