fork, dinner; cutlery, set, part of
date: label: date made
content: 1850- 1876
name: label: maker
content: B. J. Eyre and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Two-tined dinner fork with baluster stem. Tines, stem, and tang are one piece. Bone scales are riveted to the top and bottom of the tang with brass pins to form a tapered handle with chamfered edges and rounded butt. Scratched and discolored overall, yellowed ivory. See accompanying dinner knife (1986.0531.037)
label: Description
content: Stem of fork is stamped: "STEEL"
label: Description
content: Blade of accompanying knife is stamped: “B.J. EYRE & Co/LATE W. GREAVES & SON/SHEFFIELD”
label: Description
content: Maker is B.J. Eyre & Company, active ca 1850-1876 in Sheffield, England.
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: 1986.0531.038
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.038
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 (scales material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (pins material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 6 3/4 in x 5/8 in; .9525 cm x 17.145 cm x 1.5875 cm