Object Number 1984.0005.001

Object Name

Knife (Butter knife)

Category

Metals

Credit Line/Donor

Gift of Vincent H. Beckman in memory of Elizabeth Desloge Beckman

Creator (Role)

Robert Johnson Brown (Maker)
1790-1820

Place of Origin

Baltimore, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Date

1824-1880

Materials

Silver

Dimensions (inches)

7.12 (L)

Dimensions (centimeters)

18.1 (L)

Object Description

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Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Belden, Louise C. 1980 Marks of American Silversmiths in the Ineson-Bissell Collection. 506 p.
• An illustrated glossary of spoon terms, pp. 467-488
[Book] Flynt, Henry N. & Fales, Martha Gandy. 1968 The Heritage Collection of Silver: With Biographical Sketches of New England Silversmiths, 1625-1825. 391 p.
• Biographical information on Robert Johnson Brown, p. 168