knife, dessert

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Description:

Dessert knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip. Blade and tang one piece of steel. Tang has ivory scales riveted to top and bottom with brass pins to form a block handle with chamfered sides and rounded butt. Bolster is formed by two rectangular pieces of steel welded to stem and mortised into wooden scales. Heavily stained and scratched.

Blade is stamped: “LAMSON & GOODNOW MFG CO/PATENTED. MARCH 6 . 1860”

Maker is Lamson & Goodnow Company, a manufacturer and wholesaler active in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts 1844-present.

Date Patented: 1860

Maker: Lamson & Goodnow

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United States: Massachusetts, Shelburne 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: 1986.0531.179Accession Number: 1986.0531Catalog Number: 1986.0531.179

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

Physical Description: ivory (handle material)metal, steel (overall material)metal, brass (pins material)Measurements: overall: 3/8 in x 8 1/8 in x 7/8 in; .9525 cm x 20.6375 cm x 2.2225 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-c94b-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_323990

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