fork
date: label: date made
content: 1840- 1880
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner fork. Two-tined with baluster stem. Tines and stem are one piece of steel inserted into a teardrop-shaped horn handle with small silver pommel cap. Minor pitting and rust on steel. Silver is irregularly-shaped. Horn is scratched overall and nicked. No mark.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Sheffield, Sheffield
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
label: See more items in
content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0531.241
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.241
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fork, dinner
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dinner; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: horn (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, silver (pommel cap material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 8 1/8 in x 3/4 in; 1.27 cm x 20.6375 cm x 1.905 cm