knife, dinner
Object Details
- Lamson & Goodnow
- Description
- Dinner knife. Straight, silver-plated steel blade with rounded tip and “yankee” style bolster. Blade and bolster are one piece of steel with tang fitted into tapered ivory block handle with rounded sides and butt. Tang is held in place with a steel pin through side. Blade is heavily scratched and tarnished. Ivory is yellowed and has a crack near bolster.
- Blade is stamped: “LAMSON GOODNOW & Co/S. FALLS WORKS”
- Maker is Lamson & Goodnow Company, a manufacturer and wholesaler active in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts 1844-present.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1860- 1880
- ID Number
- 1986.0531.149
- accession number
- 1986.0531
- catalog number
- 1986.531.149
- 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 7/8 in x 7/8 in; 1.27 cm x 25.0825 cm x 2.2225 cm
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Shelburne Falls
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_323960
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-8364-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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