Dinner knife
Object Details
- Description
- Dinner fork. Three-tined with chamfered baluster stem and full tang; one piece of steel. Ebony scales are riveted to tang with brass pins to form a tapered block handle with rounded sides and butt. Minor pitting, discoloration, and rust on steel. Tang is misshapen and separating from scales. Brass is corroded. Small hole on one side of wooden scale, possibly insect damage?
- Stamped under tines: “STEEL”; worn away.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Bernard R. Levine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 1820- 1860
- ID Number
- 1988.0763.10
- accession number
- 1988.0763
- catalog number
- 1988.0763.10
- Object Name
- fork, dinner
- Object Type
- cutlery
- Other Terms
- Fork, Dinner; Cutlery
- Physical Description
- metal, steel (tines, stem, tang material)
- wood (scales material)
- metal, brass (pins material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3/8 in x 7 1/2 in x 3/4 in; .9525 cm x 19.05 cm x 1.905 cm
- place made
- United Kingdom: England, Sheffield, Sheffield
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Record ID
- nmah_324446
