Object Record
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Metadata
Object ID |
2023.023.066 |
Object Name |
Tool, Food Cutting |
Material |
Metal/Ivory/Steel/Organic |
Date from |
1860 |
Date to |
1889 |
Collection |
Emerson Family Objects |
Description |
Matching set of meat carving tools consisting of a sharpening steel (1), carving knife (2) and meat fork (3). Ivory handles engraved with letter "E" in Gothic Script. Knife blade is stamped "M. Price / San Francisco". Michael Price is the best known "California Knife" maker of the 19th Century. He won both growing attention and high acclaim while exhibiting at the very first Mechanics Fair in San Francisco. |
Search Terms |
Emerson Homestead |
Subjects |
Food processing |