Child's Fork
date: label: date made
content: ca 1850
notes: label: Description
content: Small, three-tined fork with faceted baluster stem fitted into a bone handle, almost square in section, rounded-over at end with an inlaid brass dot on front; no bolster. No marks. From a two-piece child's or youth's flatware set (knife [marked “TOKEN OF / AFFECTION”] and fork), 1986.0531.086-.087.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
topic: label: Subject
content: Children
label: Subject
content: Eating
label: Subject
content: Food Culture
label: Subject
content: Gifts & Presents
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0531.087
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.087
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fork
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (tines, shaft and tang material)
label: Physical Description
content: bone (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (inlay material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 5 3/16 in x 1/2 in; .635 cm x 13.17625 cm x 1.27 cm