Fish knife

Museum number:
2-58087
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
3149 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Fish knife made of coin silver. Twisted shaft handle, blade pierced, asymmetrical. One edge curled up. Pointed tip. Ornament on handle. Engraved Bay scene; “1868”; “AVS” on handle. mker is JW Turner and Co. See Fish knife in Collecting American 19th century silver, p. 240, by Katharine M. Clinton.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
United States
Verbatim coll. place:
U.S.A
Culture or time period:
United States Historic
Materials:
Silver (metal)
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Nonnative US and Canada (except California)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fish knife, accession number 2-58087, described as Fish knife made of coin silver. Twisted shaft handle, blade pierced, asymmetrical. One edge curled up. Pointed tip. Ornament on handle. Engraved Bay scene; “1868”; “AVS” on handle. mker is JW Turner and Co. See Fish knife in Collecting American 19th century silver, p. 240, by Katharine M. Clinton.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Fish knife, accession number 2-58087, described as Fish knife made of coin silver. Twisted shaft handle, blade pierced, asymmetrical. One edge curled up. Pointed tip. Ornament on handle. Engraved Bay scene; “1868”; “AVS” on handle. mker is JW Turner and Co. See Fish knife in Collecting American 19th century silver, p. 240, by Katharine M. Clinton.

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