fork, dinner; cutlery, set, part of
date: label: date made
content: ca 1829
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner fork with a matching dinner knife (see 1986.0531.015). Two-tined with a baluster stem. Tines, stem, and bolster are one piece of steel. Handle has slight curve. Bone scales are riveted to the top and bottom of the tang with steel pins to form a rounded handle with a blunt butt fitted with a round iron pommel cap. A cross-hatched diamond pattern is inscribed into the bone. Overall scratches and discoloration, metal has rust spots, nicks. Bone is chipped. No mark.
label: Description
content: Blade of matching knife is stamped: “SANDERSON”
label: Description
content: Maker is possibly the Sanderson Brothers (formerly Naylor & Sanderson), active in Sheffield, England ca 1829-present.
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: 1986.0531.016
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.016
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fork, dinner
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Fork, Dinner; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bone (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, iron (pommel cap material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 8 1/8 in x 3/4 in; 1.5875 cm x 20.6375 cm x 1.905 cm