knife, dessert
date: label: date made
content: 1860- 1880
name: label: maker
content: Lamson & Goodnow
notes: label: Description
content: Dessert knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip. Blade and bolster are one piece of steel fitted into an ivory handle with straight sides and rounded butt. Metal is discolored and has minor rust spots. Ivory is yellowed and has crack down one side from bolster to butt. Separation between bolster and ivory.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “LAMSON GOODNOW & Co/S. FALLS WORKS”; slightly worn.
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
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0531.151
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.531.151
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, dessert
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dessert; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ivory (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 8 in x 3/4 in; 1.27 cm x 20.32 cm x 1.905 cm