Dinner fork
date: label: date made
content: 1818- 1850
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner fork, with matching knife (1988.763.2). Two-tined with baluster stem. Tang is fitted into a tapered cow horn handle, conical-shaped and curved. Steel pommel cap is fitted on rounded butt; held in place with two steel pins. Tang is held in place with two brass pins through handle. Corrosion and rust on tines, baluster, and pommel cap. Long crack on underside of handle beginning at bolster. Brass is corroded.
label: Description
content: Blade of matching knife is stamped: “MARSHES &/SHEPARD”
label: Description
content: Maker is Marshes & Shepard, Sheffield, England, active circa 1818-1850.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Sheffield, Sheffield
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: 1988.0763.03
label: accession number
content: 1988.0763
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0763.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fork, dinner
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Fork, Dinner; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cow horn (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (pins material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 6 7/8 in x 7/8 in; 1.905 cm x 17.4625 cm x 2.2225 cm