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Description:

Dinner knife. Slightly-upturned steel blade with rounded tip is welded into bolster of cast aluminum handle which is ribbed overall with empty shield on one side. Scratched overall. Minor stains at tip of blade.

Blade is etched in cursive script: “Warranted/Sheffield England/Stainless/Steel”

Date Made: after 1915

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United Kingdom: England, Sheffield, Sheffield

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: 1986.0531.239Accession Number: 1986.0531Catalog Number: 1986.0531.239

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

Physical Description: metal, aluminum (handle material)metal, steel (blade material)Measurements: overall: 1/4 in x 8 1/4 in x 3/4 in; .635 cm x 20.955 cm x 1.905 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-6fe1-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_324031

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