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- Description
- Dessert fork. Three-tined with short, faceted baluster stem that is one piece of steel with full tang. Bone scales are riveted to the tang with brass pins to form a tapered block handle with straight sides, chamfered edges, and rounded butt. Discoloration on metal. Bone is yellowed and crazed, starting to separate from the tang. Brass is corroded.
- Stamped below tines: “STEEL/PATENTED”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- fork, dessert
- Object Type
- cutlery
- Other Terms
- Fork; Cutlery
- date made
- 1850- 1860
- place made
- United Kingdom: England, Sheffield, Sheffield
- United States
- Physical Description
- bone (scales material)
- metal, steel (overall material)
- metal, brass (pins material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3/8 in x 6 7/8 in x 5/8 in;.9525 cm x 17.4625 cm x 1.5875 cm
- ID Number
- 1987.0377.02
- accession number
- 1987.0377
- catalog number
- 1987.0377.02
- Credit Line
- Gift of Bernard R. Levine
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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