knife, dessert

Description:

Dessert knife (similar to 1986.0531.125-.126), possibly intended for a child. Straight steel blade with rounded tip and rectangular bolster. Blade and bolster are one piece of steel with tang inserted into tapered ivory block handle with straight sides and rounded butt. Tang is held in place with steel pin through side. Metal is pitted, stained, and scratched. Ivory is yellowed and crazed, separating from tang and bolster.

Blade is stamped: “J. RUSSELL & CO/GREEN RIVER WORKS”

Maker is John Russell & Company, Turner Falls, Massachusetts, 1834-present.

Date Made: 1860- 1880

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United States: Massachusetts

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: 1986.0531.127Accession Number: 1986.0531Catalog Number: 1986.531.127

Object Name: knife, dessertObject Type: cutleryOther Terms: Knife, Dessert; Cutlery

Physical Description: ivory (handle material)metal, steel (overall material)Measurements: overall: 3/8 in x 7 3/4 in x 3/4 in; .9525 cm x 19.685 cm x 1.905 cm

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-83e7-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_323938

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