knife, dinner; cutlery, set, part of
date: label: date made
content: 1850- 1876
name: label: maker
content: B. J. Eyre and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip. Blade, bolster, and tang are one piece. Bone scales are riveted to the top and bottom of the tang with brass pins to form a tapered handle with chamfered edges and rounded butt. Scratched and discolored overall, yellowed bone. See accompanying dinner knife (1986.0531.038)
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “B.J. EYRE & Co/LATE W. GREAVES & SON/SHEFFIELD”
label: Description
content: Maker is B.J. Eyre & Company, active ca 1850-1876 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
label: See more items in
content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0531.037
label: accession number
content: 1987.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.037
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 (scales material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (pins material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 9 1/4 in x 1 in; .9525 cm x 23.495 cm x 2.54 cm