knife, dessert; cutlery, set, part of
knife, dessert; cutlery, set, part of
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- Description
- Dessert knife, with matching fork (see 1986.0531.131), possibly made for a child. Straight steel blade with rounded tip fitted with pewter bolster. Blade and tang are one piece of steel inserted into a tapered bone handle with rounded sides and butt. Blade is scratched and discolored. Bolster is separating from handle. Bone is discolored with residue, crazed, has crack near bolster.
- Blade is stamped: “J. RUSSELL & CO/GREEN RIVER WORKS”
- Maker is John Russell & Company, Turner Falls, Massachusetts, 1834-present.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- knife, dessert
- Object Type
- cutlery
- Other Terms
- Knife, Dessert; Cutlery
- date made
- 1870- 1880
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts
- Physical Description
- bone (handle material)
- metal, steel (overall material)
- metal, pewter (bolster material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3/8 in x 7 1/2 in x 3/4 in;.9525 cm x 19.05 cm x 1.905 cm
- ID Number
- 1986.0531.130
- accession number
- 1986.0531
- catalog number
- 1986.531.130
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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