fork, dinner; cutlery, set, part of
date: label: date made
content: before 1855
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner fork, one of two with matching dinner knives (1986.0531.043-.46). Three-tined with a chamfered baluster stem. Tines and stem are one piece of steel fitted into a tapered block horn handle with chamfered edges and blunt butt. Tang is held in handle with one brass pin, with round horn peg at butt. Blade is heavily discolored with some spots of rust. Horn is cracked and chipped near bolster. No mark.
label: Description
content: Blades of accompanying knives are stamped: “L . BOOTH/NORFOLK ST WORKS/SHEFFIELD”
label: Description
content: Maker is possibly L[uke] Booth, active in Sheffield, England in the early 19th century until his death in 1855.
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0531.046
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.046
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 (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (pin material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 6 7/8 in x 3/4 in; 1.27 cm x 17.4625 cm x 1.905 cm