fork
date: label: date made
content: ca 1872
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner fork, with matching knife (1986.0635.06). Three-tined with flat stem which is one piece of steel with full tang. Ebony scales are riveted to tang with steel pin through center. Pewter bolster is welded to tang in two pieces (top and bottom), both with decorative pendulum-shaped inlay. Pewter pommel cap has matching decoration, in two pieces (top and bottom). Minor rust on steel. No mark.
label: Description
content: Blade of matching knife is stamped: “J.R. & CO. PAT. JAN. 1 [Illegible]/GREEN RIVER WORKS”
label: Description
content: Cannot locate patent, further research is needed.
label: Description
content: Maker is John Russell & Company, Turner Falls, Massachusetts, 1834-present.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Bernard R. Levine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0635.07
label: accession number
content: 1986.0635
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0635.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fork, dinner
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Fork, Dinner; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ebony (scales material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, pewter (bolster, pommel cap material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 7 1/2 in x 5/8 in; 1.27 cm x 19.05 cm x 1.5875 cm