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Description:

Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip. Blade and “yankee” style bolster are one piece fitted into the top of a flat ivory handle with rounded edges. Scratched and discolored overall, yellowed ivory, bolster and blade have pulled away from the handle.

Blade is stamped: “MAPPIN . BROTHERS/QUEENS CUTLERY WORKS/SHEFFIELD”

Maker is the Mappin Brothers, active 1810-1902 in Sheffield, England.

Date Made: 1840- 1872

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: 1986.0531.053Accession Number: 1986.0531Catalog Number: 1986.0531.053

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

Physical Description: ivory (handle material)metal, steel (overall material)Measurements: overall: 1/4 in x 9 1/2 in x 7/8 in; .635 cm x 24.13 cm x 2.2225 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a1-2b4a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_323864

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