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- Knife Box - This wooden tray or "box" held knives, forks, spoons, and other table utensils. A person would carry this inexpensive tray to the table to dispense or collect cutlery. This tray has flared sides, but others could have fancy, scrolled edges or colorfully painted decorations.
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Knife Box
This wooden tray or "box" held knives, forks, spoons, and other table utensils. A person would carry this inexpensive tray to the table to dispense or collect cutlery. This tray has flared sides, but others could have fancy, scrolled edges or colorfully painted decorations.
- Knife Box - This wooden tray or "box" held knives, forks, spoons, and other table utensils. A person would carry this inexpensive tray to the table to dispense or collect cutlery. This tray has flared sides, but others could have fancy, scrolled edges or colorfully painted decorations.
- Collections - Artifact
Knife Box
This wooden tray or "box" held knives, forks, spoons, and other table utensils. A person would carry this inexpensive tray to the table to dispense or collect cutlery. This tray has flared sides, but others could have fancy, scrolled edges or colorfully painted decorations.
- Knife Box - This wooden tray or "box" held knives, forks, spoons, and other table utensils. A person would carry this inexpensive tray to the table to dispense or collect cutlery. Most trays had flared sides, some with fancy, scrolled edges like this one. Some even had colorfully painted decorations.
- Collections - Artifact
Knife Box
This wooden tray or "box" held knives, forks, spoons, and other table utensils. A person would carry this inexpensive tray to the table to dispense or collect cutlery. Most trays had flared sides, some with fancy, scrolled edges like this one. Some even had colorfully painted decorations.
- Flatware and Cutlery Prototypes, 1994 - Starting in the early 1980s--and already established as an internationally recognized architect--Michael Graves began to pursue a parallel career as a product designer. Over the following three and a half decades he and his collaborators designed everything from humble household goods to limited edition luxury items for clients as diverse as Steuben, Alessi, Target, J. C. Penney, and Disney.
- 1994
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Flatware and Cutlery Prototypes, 1994
Starting in the early 1980s--and already established as an internationally recognized architect--Michael Graves began to pursue a parallel career as a product designer. Over the following three and a half decades he and his collaborators designed everything from humble household goods to limited edition luxury items for clients as diverse as Steuben, Alessi, Target, J. C. Penney, and Disney.
- Knife Box - This wooden tray or "box" held knives, forks, spoons, and other table utensils. A person would carry this inexpensive tray to the table to dispense or collect cutlery. This tray has flared sides, but others could have fancy, scrolled edges or colorfully painted decorations.
- Collections - Artifact
Knife Box
This wooden tray or "box" held knives, forks, spoons, and other table utensils. A person would carry this inexpensive tray to the table to dispense or collect cutlery. This tray has flared sides, but others could have fancy, scrolled edges or colorfully painted decorations.
- Cutlery Box - This wooden tray or "box" held knives, forks, spoons, and other table utensils. A person would carry this inexpensive tray to the table to dispense cutlery. This tray could be hung on a wall, keeping it out of the way until needed.
- Collections - Artifact
Cutlery Box
This wooden tray or "box" held knives, forks, spoons, and other table utensils. A person would carry this inexpensive tray to the table to dispense cutlery. This tray could be hung on a wall, keeping it out of the way until needed.
- Trade Card for Cutlery and Silverware, J. Wiss & Sons, "A Very Merry Christmas," 1870-1890 - In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- 1870-1890
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Trade Card for Cutlery and Silverware, J. Wiss & Sons, "A Very Merry Christmas," 1870-1890
In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.