Child's Fork
date: label: date made
content: 1800 - 1850
notes: label: Description
content: Small, three-tined fork with slender baluster stem fitted into a short ivory handle, tapered rectangular in section, with rounded-over end. Back of stem stamped "STEEL" in incuse serif letters. From a two-piece child's or youth's flatware set (knife and fork), 1986.0531.094-.095.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Sheffield, Sheffield
topic: label: Subject
content: Children
label: Subject
content: Eating
label: Subject
content: Food Culture
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: 1986.0531.095
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.095
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fork
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (tine, stem and tang material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 3 5/8 in x 7/16 in; .635 cm x 9.2075 cm x 1.11125 cm