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Bread knife

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

GUSN

GUSN-173087

Description

Serrated bread knife with wooden handle.

Details

Descriptive Terms

bread knives
carbon steel
wood (plant material)
Knife, Bread

Inscription

E.C. SIMMONS/KEEN/KUTTER/CUTLERY/TOOLS (Text in a wedge shape meant to represent the tooth of a saw through a piece of wood)

Associated Building

Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),

Maker

Probably E.C. Simmons & Company (Manufacturer)

Location of Origin

St. Louis, Missouri

Credit Line

Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation

Accession Number

2006.44.2313

Places

Missouri (United States)

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