fork
date: label: date made
content: 1922- 1929
notes: label: Description
content: Carving fork, with matching knife (1986.531.238A). Two-tined with wide flat stem inserted into white metal bolster cap. Tang is fitted into wooden handle: teardrop-shaped, faceted, with widened shoulders near bolster, painted gray with turquoise butt. Metal is scratched. Handle paint is chipped and cracked.
label: Description
content: Stem is etched: “STAINLESS STEEL/MADE IN U.S.A.”; diamond around company name (this mark was registered in 1922)
label: Description
content: Maker is A&J Manufacturing Company of Binghamton, New York, (founded 1909) which was purchased by Ekco Housewares Company of Chicago, Illinois in 1929, at which time products featured both company's trademarks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Binghamton
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: 1986.0531.238B
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.238B
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fork, carving
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Carving, Set; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (tines, stem material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: white metal (bolster cap material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 8 3/4 in x 7/8 in; 2.2225 cm x 22.225 cm x 2.2225 cm