Child's Fork
date: label: date made
content: ca 1850
notes: label: Description
content: Small, three-tined fork with slender baluster stem fitted into a slightly flared, rectangular ivory handle chamfered at edges and rounded-over at end that is engraved lengthwise on front “GOOD GIRLS REWARD” in a scrolled banner, colored black; no bolster. No marks. From a two-piece child's or youth's flatware set (knife and fork), 1986.0531.084-.085.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Sheffield, Sheffield
topic: label: Subject
content: Eating
label: Subject
content: Children
label: Subject
content: Gifts & Presents
label: Subject
content: Girls
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Food
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0531.085
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.085
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fork
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (tines, stem and tang material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: pigment (decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 5 1/4 in x 1/2 in; .635 cm x 13.335 cm x 1.27 cm