Fork
- Object Name:
- Fork
- Object ID:
- 1954.015
- Creator:
- Tifft & Whiting
Manufacturer - Place of Origin:
- North Attleboro, MA
- Date:
- 1840-1853
- Description:
- Fork. Attributed to Tifft & Whiting, North Attleboro, MA; 1840-1853. Silver. Hollow cast handle with visible side seams, and fork inserted into the bolster. Handle is decorated all over including: scrolls at the tip, grape vine with a cluster of grapes in the center, and oval-shaped beading at the base. Fork insert includes shoulder with pointed fins, and 4 narrow tines of equal dimensions, rectangular in cross-section, and pointed at the tips. On front of shoulder is cast decoration including 3 flared flutes. Paper label adhered to back of shoulder is likely covering the maker's mark (maker's mark in same location on spoon is that of Tifft & Whiting, North Attleboro, Mass.). One of set (1954.014-015), with history of use as a child's set.
- Material:
- Metal
Silver - Dimensions:
- W-0.875 L-6.3 inches
- Provenance:
- One of a child's spoon and fork set, given with this history: "silver fork & spoon my Uncle gave to me years ago when I was a school girl. They were his first ones he used; he was over 70 when he died & I've had them since." Donor, Lena M. Churchill (1882-1958) was the niece of William Miles Harrington (1855-1923) of Keene and Concord, NH.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Lena M. Churchill
Electronic Resources are only available to New Hampshire Historical Society members. To access electronic resources, please join the New Hampshire Historical Society.