Child's Knife
Child's Knife
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- Description
- Small knife having a blunt blade with integral bolster fitted into hardwood handle, tapered rectangular in section, with chamfered edges, rounded-over end and inlaid brass dot on front. Mark or front side of blade stamped “FOR A GOOD BOY” in incuse italic sans serif letters in a serrated oblong outline. No marks. From a two-piece child's or youth's flatware set (knife and fork), 1986.0531.090-.091.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- 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)
- walnut (handle material)
- brass (inlay material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7/16 in x 6 1/2 in x 3/4 in; 1.11125 cm x 16.51 cm x 1.905 cm
- ID Number
- 1986.0531.090
- accession number
- 1986.0531
- catalog number
- 1986.0531.090
- subject
- Boys
- 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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