Object Details
- Description
- One of a set of six dinner knives (1986.0531.138-143). Straight, silver-plated steel blade with rounded tip and “yankee” style bolster which are one piece of steel fitted into tapered ivory handle with rounded sides and rounded butt. Blade is scratched and tarnished. Ivory has minor yellowing and discoloration.
- Blade is etched: “1834/J. RUSSELL & CO./12”
- Maker is John Russell & Company, Turner Falls, Massachusetts, 1834-present.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ca 1834
- ID Number
- 1986.0531.140
- accession number
- 1986.0531
- catalog number
- 1986.531.140
- Object Name
- knife, dinner
- Object Type
- cutlery
- Other Terms
- Knife, Dinner; Cutlery
- Physical Description
- ivory (handle material)
- metal, silver-plated (overall material)
- metal, steel (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1/2 in x 9 3/4 in x 3/4 in; 1.27 cm x 24.765 cm x 1.905 cm
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_323951
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a1-2e6f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
