fork
date: label: date made
content: ca 1780- 1810
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner fork. Three-tined with baluster stem. Tines and stem are one piece of steel with bolster inserted into ivory handle stained green with a fluted silver ferrule at bolster and matching pommel cap. Handle is fluted, with worn medallion on back side. Steel has moderate rust. Silver is tarnished. Medallion is worn on handle, which is also crazed, has small nick on one side, crack. No mark.
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: 1986.0531.245
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.531.245
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fork, dinner
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Fork, Dinner; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ivory (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, silver (ferrule, pommel cap material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 7 3/8 in x 5/8 in; .635 cm x 18.7325 cm x 1.5875 cm