knife, dinner
knife, dinner
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- Description
- Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with slightly-narrowed and rounded tip. Blade and partial tang are one piece of steel fitted into wooden block handle with straight sides, rounded edges, and blunt butt. Tang is held in place with iron pins. Heavily discolored and stained, wood is separating from tang.
- Blade is stamped: “L & G MFG CO/CAST STEEL”
- Maker is Lamson & Goodnow Company, a manufacturer and wholesaler active in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts 1844-present.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- knife, dinner
- Object Type
- cutlery
- Other Terms
- Knife, Dinner; Cutlery
- date made
- 1860- 1880
- maker
- Lamson & Goodnow
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Shelburne Falls
- Physical Description
- metal, steel (overall material)
- wood (handle material)
- metal, iron (pins material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3/8 in x 9 1/8 in x 7/8 in;.9525 cm x 23.1775 cm x 2.2225 cm
- ID Number
- 1986.0531.171
- accession number
- 1986.0531
- catalog number
- 1986.0531.171
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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