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Description:

Dessert knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip. Blade, bolster, and tang are one piece of steel. Wooden scales are riveted to the top and bottom of the tang with brass pins to form a tapered block handle with straight sides and a blunt butt. Metal is heavily discolored with spots of rust. Wood is cracked on one side. Brass pins are corroded.

Blade is stamped: “HARGREAVES/SMITH&Co/BEST CAST STEEL”

Maker is Hargreaves, Smith & Company, active in Sheffield, England ca 1866-1920.

Date Made: 1866- 1890

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: 1986.0531.034Accession Number: 1986.0531Catalog Number: 1986.0531.034

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

Physical Description: metal, steel (overall material)wood (scales material)metal, brass (pins material)Measurements: overall: 3/8 in x 8 in x 3/4 in; .9525 cm x 20.32 cm x 1.905 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-81ad-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_323845

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