Object Details
- Description
- Straight steel blade with rounded tip. Blade and rectangular bolster are one piece of steel with tang fitted into a tapered ivory handle with straight sides and rounded butt. Metal has minor discoloration, some residues on blade. Ivory is yellowed. Blade stamped: “PRATT ROPES WEBB&Co / AMERICAN CUTLERY”. With matching fork, 1986.0531.114.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ca 1846 - 1855
- ID Number
- 1986.0531.113
- accession number
- 1986.0531
- catalog number
- 1986.531.113
- Object Name
- knife
- Object Type
- cutlery
- Other Terms
- Knife, Dessert; Cutlery
- Physical Description
- steel (blade material)
- ivory (handle material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3/8 in x 7 3/4 in x 7/8 in; .9525 cm x 19.685 cm x 2.2225 cm
- place made
- United States: Connecticut, Meriden
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Food
- Domestic Furnishings
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_323923
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-c8ab-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
