Dessert Knife
Dessert Knife
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- Description
- Dessert knife having a blunt-tip blade with integral single-groove ("Yankee") bolster and flat, rounded-edge ivory block handle; tang is secured with a single pin near center of handle. Incuse banded oval mark on blade with “LAMSON & GOODNOW / M.F.G. Co” in sans serif and serif letters surrounding a sideways fouled anchor.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- knife
- Object Type
- cutlery
- Other Terms
- Knife, Dessert; Cutlery
- date made
- 1900 - 1910
- maker
- Lamson & Goodnow
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Shelburne Falls
- Physical Description
- steel, silver-plated (blade material)
- ivory (handle material)
- iron (pin material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1/2 in x 7 7/8 in x 3/4 in; 1.27 cm x 20.0025 cm x 1.905 cm
- ID Number
- 1986.0531.174
- accession number
- 1986.0531
- catalog number
- 1986.0531.174
- subject
- Eating
- Knives
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Food
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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