Object Details
- Description
- Dessert knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip and square bolster. Blade, bolster, and tang are one piece of steel fitted into an ivory tapered block handle with straight sides and a rounded butt. Metal has scratches and minor discoloration. Ivory is yellowed with minor discoloration.
- Blade is stamped: “J. GARSIDE/SUPERIOR CUTLERY”
- Maker is the John Garside, Washington Factory, Newark, New Jersey, active in the mid-19th century.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ca 1850
- ID Number
- 1986.0531.105
- accession number
- 1986.0531
- catalog number
- 1986.531.105
- Object Name
- knife, dessert
- Object Type
- cutlery
- Other Terms
- Knife, Dessert; Cutlery
- Physical Description
- ivory (handle material)
- metal, steel (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3/8 in x 8 3/8 in x 13/16 in; .9525 cm x 21.2725 cm x 2.06375 cm
- place made
- United States: New Jersey, Newark
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_323915
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-5ed8-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
