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Knife Steel

Collection Type

  • Cooking equipment

Date

1870-1910

GUSN

GUSN-11624

Description

Handles of natural, varigated horn and a steel cap at the tip, silver ring at the neck patterned with an egg and dart motif. Long tapered steel head.

Details

Descriptive Terms

cookware
lip-vibrated aerophones with conical bore: with valves
horn (animal material)
silver (metal)
steel (alloy)
lip-vibrated aerophones with conical bore: with valves
horn (animal material)
Horn
Steel
Silver
STEEL, KNIFE

Associated Building

Original to Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm (Newbury, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

14.25 (H) (inches)

Credit Line

Bequest of Amelia W. Little

Accession Number

1986.604.3

Related Items

Title Carving Knife Accession Number 1986.604.1
Title Carving Fork Accession Number 1986.604.2

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