Child's Toy Fork: Museum Object and Cultural History
Child's Toy Fork: date made: ca 1910. Object Name: fork. Object Type: cutlery.
The object in the museum catalogue
Small, four-tined fork having a flared, rounded-end handle stamped on front with a raised bead border around upper shaft and terminal, and on back “LIKE MOTHER’S (arched) / GERMANY (curved)” in raised decorative font.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: ca 1910
- Object Name: fork
- Object Type: cutlery
- Physical Description: aluminum (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 3/8 in x 5 1/4 in x 5/8 in; .9525 cm x 13.335 cm x 1.5875 cm
- place made: Germany
- Subject: Children
- Subject: Eating
- Subject: Food Culture
- Subject: Toys
- ID Number: 1986.0531.099
- accession number: 1986.0531
- catalog number: 1986.0531.099
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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