Dinner fork, one of two with matching dinner knives (1986.0531.043-.46). Three-tined with a chamfered baluster stem. Tines and stem are one piece of steel fitted into a tapered block horn handle with chamfered edges and blunt butt. Tang is held in handle with one brass pin, with round horn peg at butt. Metal is heavily discolored with some spots of rust. Horn is cracked near bolster. No mark.
Blades of accompanying knives are stamped: “L . BOOTH/NORFOLK ST WORKS/SHEFFIELD”
Maker is possibly L[uke] Booth, active in Sheffield, England in the early 19th century until his death in 1855.