Dessert Fork
date: label: date made
content: ca 1846 - 1855
notes: label: Description
content: Three-tined fork with chamfered baluster stem. Tines, stem, and rectangular bolster are one piece of steel with tang fitted into a tapered ivory handle with straight sides and rounded butt. Metal has minor discoloration. Ivory is yellowed and separated from bolster, crack on one side. No marks. With matching knife, 1986.0531.113, marked “PRATT ROPES WEBB&Co/AMERICAN CUTLERY".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Meriden
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Food
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0531.114
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.531.114
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fork
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Fork, Dessert; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (tines material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 6 1/4 in x 5/8 in; 1.27 cm x 15.875 cm x 1.5875 cm