knife, dinner
- Description
- Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip. Blade and bolster are one piece of steel fitted into a tapered hard rubber handle with rounded sides and butt. Blade is discolored and rusted. Rubber is scratched.
- Blade is etched: “LANDERS FRARY & CLARK/AETNA WORKS”
- Maker is Landers, Frary & Clark, New Britain, Connecticut (c. 1862). In 1890, L. F. & C. took on the Trademark “Universal”, in 1965, General Electric acquired the company.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1880- 1897
- maker
- Landers, Frary & Clark
- place made
- United States: Connecticut, New Britain
- Physical Description
- metal, steel (handle material)
- rubber (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3/8 in x 9 in x 13/16 in; .9525 cm x 22.86 cm x 2.06375 cm
- ID Number
- 1986.0531.070
- accession number
- 1986.0531
- catalog number
- 1986.0531.070
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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