1940.28.C: Knife
Tools and Equipment
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1940.28.C
- People
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Pratt Ropes Webb & Co., American? (19th-20th centuries)
- Title
- Knife
- Classification
- Tools and Equipment
- Work Type
- knife
- Date
- 18th-19th century
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/226195
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Metal (steel?) with ivory handle
- Dimensions
- 25.1 x 2.2 cm (9 7/8 x 7/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: Stamped on blade: Pratt Ropes Webb & Co. American Cutlery
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Charles Eliot Norton, gift from his cousins, 1849.
By descent to daughters, the Misses Elizabeth G. and Margaret Norton.
Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1940.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the Misses Elizabeth G. and Margaret Norton
- Accession Year
- 1940
- Object Number
- 1940.28.C
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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