Name/Title
Knife, ButterEntry/Object ID
2004.008.0280Description
This a box for two butter knives. It is a plain brown box with a padded lid and a silver colored capstan for the clasp. It has a brilliant green satin lining with "Geo. Sharp & Br." stamped in gold in the center of the lining of the lid. The label on the bottom identifies this as a butter knife box and possibly the pattern number. The butter knives are not there.
The following items are in the box and will be broken out in their own records at a later time:
Open-ended thimble 5/8" tall and 5/8" in diameter
Small ship's compass 5/8" diameter face with small balls and decorations around it to a total diameter of 7/8" red and black compass directions one of the loop decorations has failed
Single yellowish-white bead on a "gold" stem
"Gold" stud? 3/8" long
Ca. 7" of clear glass beads strung on white thread and tied into a bracelet?
Brass? shirt stud?
Key 1 1/2" long with rectangular head with a circle. Not very thick
Key 1 5/8" long with trefoil head. Not very thick.
Brass? strip twisted into double loop that might be an earring.
Needle like piece that is probably a brooch pin broken from the brooch
Another pin that has broken from its jewelry
Brass? pin of some kind
3/4" long diamond shaped slightly faceted jet bead with 4 tiny holes for attaching it to a garment
Dozens of tiny brown spheres that may be seedsCollection
Blackistone Family CollectionDimensions
Width
2-1/2 inDepth
1-1/4 inLength
8-3/4 inLocation
Container
Blackistone Collection, Box 1Shelf
Rack 06, Shelf 3Rack
Rack 06Wall
South wallRoom
Archives 1Building
Tudor Hall