Object Details
- Description
- Dessert fork, with matching knife (see 1986.0531.125). Three-tined with chamfered baluster stem and rectangular bolster. Tines, stem, and bolster are one piece of steel with tang inserted into tapered ivory block handle with straight sides and rounded butt. Metal is stained and scratched with minor rust spots. Ivory is yellowed and crazed, with large crack down one side. No mark.
- Blade of matching knife is stamped: “J. RUSSELL & CO/GREEN RIVER WORKS”; partially worn.
- Maker is John Russell & Company, Turner Falls, Massachusetts, 1834-present.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 1860- 1880
- Physical Description
- ivory (handle material)
- metal, steel (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1/2 in x 6 1/4 in x 5/8 in; 1.27 cm x 15.875 cm x 1.5875 cm
- Object Name
- fork, dessert
- Object Type
- cutlery
- Other Terms
- Fork, Dessert; Cutlery
