knife, dinner; cutlery, set, part of
Object Details
- Description
- Dinner knife, one of two with matching dinner forks (1986.0531.043-.46). Upturned steel blade with rounded tip. Blade and bolster are one piece of steel fitted into a tapered block horn handle with chamfered edges and blunt butt. Tang is held in handle with one brass pin, with round horn peg at butt. Overall nicked and scratched, blade is heavily discolored with some rust. Horn is cracked.
- Blade is stamped: “L . BOOTH/NORFOLK ST WORKS/SHEFFIELD”
- Maker is possibly L[uke] Booth, active in Sheffield, England in the early 19th century until his death in 1855.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- before 1855
- ID Number
- 1986.0531.044
- accession number
- 1986.0531
- catalog number
- 1986.0531.044
- Object Name
- knife, dinner
- Object Type
- cutlery
- Other Terms
- Knife, Dinner; Cutlery
- Physical Description
- horn (handle material)
- metal, steel (overall material)
- metal, brass (pin material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1/2 in x 9 3/8 in x 1 in; 1.27 cm x 23.8125 cm x 2.54 cm
- place made
- United Kingdom: England, Sheffield, Sheffield
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Record ID
- nmah_323855
