knife, dinner
knife, dinner
- Description
- Dinner knife. Steel blade with slightly upturned false edge and rounded tip. Blade and “yankee” style bolster are one piece of steel fitted into a tapered black hard rubber handle with rounded sides and butt. Metal is scratched, has minor rust.
- Blade is etched: “RUSSELL/GREEN RIVER WORKS.”; with arrow through the “R”
- Maker is John Russell & Company, Turner Falls, Massachusetts, 1834-present.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- knife, dinner
- Object Type
- cutlery
- Other Terms
- Knife, Dinner; Cutlery
- date made
- 1900- 1941
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts
- Physical Description
- metal, steel (overall material)
- rubber (handle material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3/8 in x 9 3/8 in x 3/4 in;.9525 cm x 23.8125 cm x 1.905 cm
- ID Number
- 1986.0531.221
- accession number
- 1986.0531
- catalog number
- 1986.0531.221
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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