Object Details
- Description
- Straight steel blade with rounded tip and grooved bolster. Silver banded ferrule is fitted below bolster. Blade, bolster, and tang are one piece of steel inserted into an ivory block handle with carved and chamfered sides and blunt butt. Diamond is cut into butt. Blade may have originally been silver-plated. Steel is discolored, rusted in spots. Silver is tarnished. Ivory is yellowed, cracked near bolster. Blade stamped “PRATT ROPES&Co / AMERICAN CUTLERY”.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- ca 1846 - 1855
- Physical Description
- steel (blade material)
- ivory (handle material)
- silver plate (ferrule material)
- Measurements
- overall: 9/16 in x 10 5/16 in x 1 in; 1.42875 cm x 26.19375 cm x 2.54 cm
- Object Name
- knife
- Object Type
- cutlery
- Other Terms
- Knife, Dinner; Cutlery
