Object Details
- Description
- Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip and “yankee” style bolster. Blade, bolster, and tang are one piece of steel fitted into a bone block handle with rounded sides and butt. Metal is discolored and rusted, bone is yellowed, crazed, and has a long crack on one side near bolster.
- Blade is stamped: “BEAVER FALLS CUTLERY CO./PENNA” within a banner.
- Maker is the Beaver Falls Cutlery Company, active 1868-1886 in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 1868- 1886
- Physical Description
- bone (handle material)
- metal, steel (blade, tang material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7/16 in x 9 1/4 in x 13/16 in; 1.11125 cm x 23.495 cm x 2.06375 cm
- Object Name
- knife, dinner
- Object Type
- cutlery
- Other Terms
- Knife, Dinner; Cutlery
