fork
date: label: date made
content: 1850- 1860
notes: label: Description
content: Dessert fork. Three-tined with short, faceted baluster stem that is one piece of steel with full tang. Bone scales are riveted to the tang with brass pins to form a tapered block handle with straight sides, chamfered edges, and rounded butt. Discoloration on metal. Bone is yellowed and crazed, starting to separate from the tang. Brass is corroded.
label: Description
content: Stamped below tines: “STEEL/PATENTED”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Sheffield, Sheffield
label: place made
content: United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Bernard R. Levine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0377.02
label: accession number
content: 1987.0377
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0377.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fork, dessert
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Fork; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bone (scales material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (pins material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 6 7/8 in x 5/8 in; .9525 cm x 17.4625 cm x 1.5875 cm