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Description:

Dinner knife. Upturned steel blade with widened, rounded tip. Blade, bolster, and tang are one piece of metal; bolster and tang are iron. Bone scales are riveted to the top and bottom of the tang with iron pins to form a tapered handle with rounded sides and a rounded butt. Scales are inscribed with vertical lines. Metal is heavily discolored, scratched; tang and bolster are rusted. Bone is crazed, yellowed, cracked, and heavily worn, especially at butt. Reddish stain on butt may indicate a missing iron pommel. No mark.

Date Made: 1600-1700

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: 1986.0531.017Accession Number: 1986.0531Catalog Number: 1986.0531.017

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

Physical Description: metal, iron (overall material)metal, steel (overall material)bone (scales material)Measurements: overall: 3/4 in x 10 in x 1 in; 1.905 cm x 25.4 cm x 2.54 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a1-2b6f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_323828

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