Dinner knife
date: label: date made
content: 1820- 1860
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner fork. Three-tined with chamfered baluster stem and full tang; one piece of steel. Ebony scales are riveted to tang with brass pins to form a tapered block handle with rounded sides and butt. Minor pitting, discoloration, and rust on steel. Tang is misshapen and separating from scales. Brass is corroded. Small hole on one side of wooden scale, possibly insect damage?
label: Description
content: Stamped under tines: “STEEL”; worn away.
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: 1988.0763.10
label: accession number
content: 1988.0763
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0763.10
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 (tines, stem, tang material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (scales material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (pins material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 7 1/2 in x 3/4 in; .9525 cm x 19.05 cm x 1.905 cm