Child's Knife
Child's Knife
- Description
- Small knife having a blunt blade with integral bolster fitted into a bone handle, almost square in section, rounded-over at end with an inlaid brass dot on front. Mark or front side of blade stamped “TOKEN OF / AFFECTION” in incuse serif letters between scrolled motifs. No marks. From a two-piece child's or youth's flatware set (knife and fork), 1986.0531.086-.087.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Knife, Child's
- knife
- Object Type
- cutlery
- Other Terms
- Knife, Child's; Cutlery
- date made
- ca 1850
- place made
- United Kingdom: England
- Physical Description
- steel (blade and tang material)
- bone (handle material)
- brass (inlay material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3/8 in x 6 1/2 in x 9/16 in;.9525 cm x 16.51 cm x 1.42875 cm
- ID Number
- 1986.0531.086
- accession number
- 1986.0531
- catalog number
- 1986.0531.086
- subject
- Children
- Eating
- Food Culture
- Gifts & Presents
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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