knife, dinner

Description:

Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip and “yankee” style bolster. Blade, bolster, and tang are one piece of steel fitted into a bone block handle with rounded sides and butt. Metal is discolored and rusted, bone is yellowed, crazed, and has a long crack on one side near bolster.

Blade is stamped: “BEAVER FALLS CUTLERY CO./PENNA” within a banner.

Maker is the Beaver Falls Cutlery Company, active 1868-1886 in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.

Date Made: 1868- 1886

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United States: Pennsylvania, Beaver Falls

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

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Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 1986.0531.108Accession Number: 1986.0531Catalog Number: 1986.531.108

Object Name: knife, dinnerObject Type: cutleryOther Terms: Knife, Dinner; Cutlery

Physical Description: bone (handle material)metal, steel (blade, tang material)Measurements: overall: 7/16 in x 9 1/4 in x 13/16 in; 1.11125 cm x 23.495 cm x 2.06375 cm

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-42b8-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_323918

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