Object Details
- Description
- Dinner fork, with matching knife (1986.0635.06). Three-tined with flat stem which is one piece of steel with full tang. Ebony scales are riveted to tang with steel pin through center. Pewter bolster is welded to tang in two pieces (top and bottom), both with decorative pendulum-shaped inlay. Pewter pommel cap has matching decoration, in two pieces (top and bottom). Minor rust on steel. No mark.
- Blade of matching knife is stamped: “J.R. & CO. PAT. JAN. 1 [Illegible]/GREEN RIVER WORKS”
- Cannot locate patent, further research is needed.
- Maker is John Russell & Company, Turner Falls, Massachusetts, 1834-present.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- ca 1872
- Credit Line
- Gift of Bernard R. Levine
- Physical Description
- ebony (scales material)
- metal, steel (overall material)
- metal, pewter (bolster, pommel cap material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1/2 in x 7 1/2 in x 5/8 in; 1.27 cm x 19.05 cm x 1.5875 cm
- Object Name
- fork, dinner
- Object Type
- cutlery
- Other Terms
- Fork, Dinner; Cutlery
