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Description:

Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip is one piece of steel with full tang. Exotic dark brown-black wooden scales are riveted to tang with steel pins to form tapered block handle with rounded sides and blunt butt. Two-piece pewter bolster. Blade is heavily corroded and rusted. Steel pins are heavily rusted.

Blade is stamped: “HANOVER CUTLERY/CO.”

Maker is Hanover Cutlery Company. No info could be located on this company at this time, further research is needed.

Date Made: ca 1880

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United States

See more items in: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life, Domestic Furnishings

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Credit Line: Gift of Bernard R. Levine

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 1986.0635.08Accession Number: 1986.0635Catalog Number: 1986.0635.08

Object Name: Knife, DinnerObject Type: cutleryOther Terms: Knife, Dinner; Cutlery

Physical Description: metal, steel (overall material)wood, tropical (scales material)Measurements: overall: 1/2 in x 9 5/8 in x 1 in; 1.27 cm x 24.4475 cm x 2.54 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-a9e6-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_323740

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