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Description:

Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip and long tang with wooden scales riveted with steel pin to form block handle with rounded sides and butt. Pewter bolster has lattice decoration inlaid into wood; matching inlay attached to pewter pommel cap. Scratched overall, minor rust, discoloration on metal.

Blade is stamped: “LAMSON GOODNOW & CO/S. FALLS WORKS”

Maker is Lamson & Goodnow Company, a manufacturer and wholesaler active in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts 1844-present.

Date Made: 1860- 1880

Maker: Lamson & Goodnow

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United States: Massachusetts, Shelburne Falls

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: 1986.0531.168Accession Number: 1986.0531Catalog Number: 1986.0531.168

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

Physical Description: metal, pewter (bolster, pommel cap material)metal, steel (overall material)wood (scales material)Measurements: overall: 1/2 in x 9 1/2 in x 7/8 in; 1.27 cm x 24.13 cm x 2.2225 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-825f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_323979

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