Object Details
- Description
- Set of six dinner knives (1986.531.162-.167) in light brown flannel carrying pouch with individual pockets for each knife (1986.531.247). Straight silver-plated steel blade with rounded tip and “yankee” style bolster fitted into tapered ivory handle with rounded sides and butt. Tang is held in place with single steel pin through side of handle. Blade is scratched, plate is worn, tarnished. Ivory is yellowed, cracked, and crazed.
- Blade is stamped: “LAMSON & GOODNOW MFG 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
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Lamson & Goodnow
- date made
- 1860- 1880
- Physical Description
- ivory (handle material)
- metal, silver-plate (overall material)
- metal, steel (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3/8 in x 9 7/8 in x 7/8 in; .9525 cm x 25.0825 cm x 2.2225 cm
- Object Name
- knife, dinner
- Object Type
- cutlery
- Other Terms
- Knife, Dinner; Cutlery
