fork
date: label: date made
content: after 1867
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner fork. Three-tined in one piece with full tang. Bone scales are riveted to tang with steel pins to form a block handle with straight chamfered sides and rounded butt. Pewter bolster with scalloped edge is welded to tang and mortised into bone scales. Discoloration and pitting on steel. Bone is crazed and yellowed. No mark.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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: 1986.0531.242
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.242
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, pewter (bolster material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 7 1/4 in x 3/4 in; 1.5875 cm x 18.415 cm x 1.905 cm