Dessert knife

Description:

Dessert knife, one of a set of six (1988.763.4-9). Straight steel blade with rounded tip and “yankee” style bolster fitted into tapered ivory handle with rounded sides and butt. Tang is held in place with steel pin through side of handle. Blade is scratched and abraded, with minor corrosion and rust. Ivory is yellowed, small crack near pin. Steel pin through handle is rusted.

Blade is stamped: “CLEMENT HAWKES /& MAYNARD”; worn away, difficult to read.

Maker is the Clement Hawkes & Maynard Manufacturing Company, founded in 1866 in Northampton, Massachusetts. The company was reorganized circa 1882 as the Clement Cutlery Company.

Date Made: 1866- 1882

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United States: Massachusetts, Northampton

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

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Credit Line: Gift of Bernard R. Levine

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 1988.0763.04Accession Number: 1988.0763Catalog Number: 1988.0763.04

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

Physical Description: metal, steel (overall material)ivory (handle material)Measurements: overall: 3/8 in x 7 7/8 in x 3/4 in; .9525 cm x 20.0025 cm x 1.905 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a1-2e74-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_324440

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