fork, dinner; cutlery, set, part of
date: label: date made
content: 1860- 1890
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner fork, part of a matching set (see 1986.0531.047 knife). Two-tined dinner fork with baluster stem. Tines, stem, and tang are one piece. Horn scales are riveted to the top and bottom of the tang with brass pins to form a tapered block handle with chamfered edges and blunt butt. Tines are discolored and scratched, horn is cracked and chipped around edges. No mark.
label: Description
content: Blade of accompanying knife is stamped: “SANDERSON/SHEARSTEEL”
label: Description
content: Maker is possibly the Sanderson Brothers, active ca 1829-[unknown] in Sheffield, England.
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
label: See more items in
content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0531.048
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.048
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fork, dinner
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Fork, Dinner; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: horn (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 7 1/8 in x 3/4 in; .9525 cm x 18.0975 cm x 1.905 cm