Box, Knife
- Object Name:
- Box, Knife
- Object ID:
- 2012.019.12
- Creator:
- Durgin Silver Company
- Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1870-1880
- Description:
- Knife box. Original factory-issued cardboard box for set of twelve silverplated dinner knives made by Durgin Silver Company, Concord, NH, 1870-1880. Contains eleven knives. Cardboard covered with white paper. Cover attached with paper hinges. Applied printed border on cover. Printed paper label adhered to center of cover: "PLATED BY / Durgin Silver Co. / Warranted 75 dwts. Pure Silver / TO THE DOZEN." Interior has two notched pieces of wood, covered with blue velvet, for holding knives on edge.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-1.2 W-4.7 L-9.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Originally owned by Rebecca Frost Higgins (1825-1901) of Arlington, MA. Inherited by her daughter, Caira L. Higgins (d. 1944). Next owned by Edith R. Ervin (d. 1967), then by Edith's niece, Barbara Gould Nylander, mother of Richard Nylander, donor's husband.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Jane C. Nylander
- People:
- Durgin, William B. (1833-1905)
- Subjects:
- Silverware, Silversmiths, Silver
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