Carving Fork with Antler Handle and Boar's Head Terminal
date: label: Date
content: 1900
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Large carving fork with two elongated tapering tines. Y-shaped hinged rest attached below tines on neck. When folded out, v-shape folds down to meet surface an provide stability when resting in face down position. Folds in to reverse of tines when not in use.
label: Description
content: Banded silver ferrule, silver collar with blade. Highly decorated relief floral, acorn and oak leaf pattern silver collar wrapping cylindrical antler stem. Capped with silver collar of similar oak and acorn pattern, terminating in boar's head, fit with red glass eyes, and exaggerated snarl.
place: label: manufactured in
content: Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Julian Clarence Levi
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1972-5-3-c
objectType: label: Type
content: cutlery
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: fork
label: Type
content: fork
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: steel, antler, silver
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D: 31.5 × 4.2 × 7.9 cm (12 3/8 × 1 5/8 × 3 1/8 in.)