Object Details
- Description
- Dinner knife, part of a matching set (see 1986.0531.050 fork). Straight steel blade with rounded tip. Blade, bolster, and tang are one piece of steel. Horn scales are riveted to the top and bottom of the tang with brass pins to form a tapered block handle with chamfered edges and blunt butt. Blade is scratched and discolored, tang is rusted. Horn is scratched, cracked and chipped around edges, separated from tang.
- Blade is stamped: “H. G. L & Co/SHEFFIELD”
- Maker is H. G. Long & Company, active in Sheffield, England ca 1846-present (now a division of H. M. Slater).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 1846- 1890
- Physical Description
- horn (scales material)
- metal, steel (overall material)
- metal, brass (pins material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1/2 in x 9 3/8 in x 7/8 in; 1.27 cm x 23.8125 cm x 2.2225 cm
- Object Name
- knife, dinner
- Object Type
- cutlery
- Other Terms
- Knife, Dinner; Cutlery
