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Cleaver

Object number2008.37.2

Date1890-1899

MediumSteel; wood; metals; paint

Credit LineGift of Gerald Price

DescriptionSteel meat cleaver with wooden handle. Cut hole on top end of metal blade. Two gold metal nails in handle, attaching wood to metal.Dimensions12 in. (30.5 cm)
MarksEngraved maker's mark on top, center of metal "CASE XX".
Historical NotesMeat cleaver used at the Price family's grocery store owned and operated in the Fourth Ward of Wilmerding starting in the 1890s. Part of a collection of items related to donor Gerald Price's Italian-American family, one of the earliest to settle in Wilmerding, Pennsylvania.

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