Name/Title
Dexter bread-making knife from Hofmann's Bakery, c. 1920-1970Entry/Object ID
2024.47.9Description
Acc. No. 24.47.9
Subject Category: Businesses of Alameda, Bakeries
Date or Period: c. 1920s-1970s
Object: baking knife
Description: A tool composed of a wedge-shaped dulled stainless steel blade with rounded end, and wooden handle of half the size, affixed with brass nails. On one side of the blade is the manufacturer's mark: Harrington Cutlery Co., SouthBridge, Mass., and the name of the tool 'DEXTER'. On the wood handle has been branded: '15910 DEXTER'.
Size: L 9 3/4"
History of Object: A Harrington Cutlery DEXTER bread-making knife, used in Hofmann's Bakery of 918 Central Ave, 1913-1974.
The Harrington Cutlery Company was established in 1818, in Southbridge, Massachusetts by Henry Harrington, a New England craftsman and inventor. The Harrington Cutlery company was the first cutlery manufacturing company established in the United States. Harrington manufactured surgical equipment, shoe knives and firearms. In 1894, the Dexter trade name was introduced in honor of one of Henry Harrington's sons, Dexter. The Dexter line of fine kitchen and table cutlery soon gained a reputation for quality in America's homes and restaurants. The company merged, and was renamed, but the name lives forth in today's name 'Dexter-Russell Inc.'.
Donor: Frederica Kapp
Donation Date: 2022; Catalog Date: 5/22/2024
