Cooking Fork
date: label: date made
content: 1780 - 1840
notes: label: Description
content: Long-handled fork with two, circular-section, curved tines having rounded shoulders and an arched tab at neck; shaft is square in section at neck, rounded at center and flattened at top, ending in a small, backward-scroll hook with single curl. No marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Middle Atlantic
label: place used
content: United States: Middle Atlantic
label: place purchased
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Shawnee on Delaware
topic: label: Subject
content: Cooking
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Food
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Kler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.64.0436
label: catalog number
content: 64.0436
label: accession number
content: 252005
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fork, hearth
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron, wrought (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 5/8 in x 28 5/8 in x 2 1/4 in; 4.1275 cm x 72.7075 cm x 5.715 cm