Table Knife
Table Knife
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- Description
- Dinner or table knife with blunt blade and solid rounded-end handle, oblong in section, with arched hollow shoulders above the single-groove ("Yankee") bolster; made as a single piece. No monograms. No marks. One of five knives, 1986.0531.204-.208, from a 13-piece flatware set, 1986.0531.204-.216 (knives unmarked; forks and spoons marked).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- knife
- Object Type
- cutlery
- Other Terms
- Knife, Dinner; Cutlery
- date made
- 1900 - 1925
- maker
- Charles Parker Company
- place made
- United States: Connecticut, Meriden
- Physical Description
- steel (overall material)
- tin (plating material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1/4 in x 9 1/8 in x 7/8 in;.635 cm x 23.1775 cm x 2.2225 cm
- ID Number
- 1986.0531.208
- accession number
- 1986.0531
- catalog number
- 1986.0531.208
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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