Child's Fork
Child's Fork
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- Description
- Engraved "Lily" pattern child's fork having four curved tines and an upturned, flared and rounded handle bright cut on front with a right-curving raceme of lily-of-the-valley above three leaves, quatrefoil-in-circle motif and pendant line of paired leaves. Engraved "Charlie." in script lengthwise on terminal back. Back of handle struck "TOWLE.MF'G.CO" in incuse serif letters. From a three-piece child's or youth's flatware set (knife, fork, spoon), 1979.0003.01-.03.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- fork
- Object Type
- flatware
- date made
- 1888 - 1890
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Newburyport
- place owned; place used
- United States: Massachusetts
- Physical Description
- silver plate (overall material)
- Measurements
- fork: 15.4 cm x 2 cm; 6 1/16 in x 13/16 in
- overall: 1/2 in x 6 1/8 in x 3/4 in; 1.27 cm x 15.5575 cm x 1.905 cm
- ID Number
- 1979.0003.02
- accession number
- 1979.0003
- catalog number
- 1979.0003.02
- Credit Line
- C. Malcolm Watkins
- subject
- Flowers
- Boys
- Children
- Eating
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Food
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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