knife, dessert

Description:

Dessert knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip. Blade and tang are one piece of steel fitted with pewter bolster. Bone scales are riveted to tang with brass pins to form a block handle with flat sides, chamfered edges, and a rounded butt. Minor scratches and discoloration overall. Greenish residue surrounding pewter.

Blade is stamped: “LANDERS FRARY & CLARK/PATENTED SEPT. 25, 1866”

Patent:

US58242 A, Sept. 25, 1866, James D. Frary, Hartford, Connecticut, for “Improvement in manufacture of knives and forks”

Maker is Landers, Frary & Clark, New Britain, Connecticut (c. 1862). In the 1890s, took on the name “Universal”, in 1965, General Electric acquired the company.

Date Patented: ca 1866

Maker: Landers, Frary & Clark

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United States: Connecticut, New Britain

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

Exhibition:

Exhibition Location:

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 1986.0531.061Accession Number: 1986.0531Catalog Number: 1986.0531.061

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

Physical Description: metal, pewter (bolster material)metal, steel (overall material)bone (scales material)metal, brass (pins material)Measurements: overall: 7/16 in x 8 1/16 in x 13/16 in; 1.11125 cm x 20.47875 cm x 2.06375 cm

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-91e7-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_323872

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