knife, dinner
knife, dinner
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- Description
- Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip. Blade and “yankee” style bolster are one piece of steel with tang fitted into tapered ivory handle with rounded sides and butt. Tang is held in place with an iron pin. Overall stains and scratches, minor rust on bolster. Ivory is yellowed and crazed.
- Blade is stamped: “LAMSON & GOODNOW MFG Co”; with anchor in center double oval.
- 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
- ivory (handle material)
- metal, steel (overall material)
- metal, iron (pin material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1/2 in x 10 in x 7/8 in; 1.27 cm x 25.4 cm x 2.2225 cm
- ID Number
- 1986.0531.173
- accession number
- 1986.0531
- catalog number
- 1986.0531.173
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- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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