Collection Highlights
The Game of Playing Department Store
1898
2000.715
Cardboard, wood, paper
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Child's fork and spoon
Object name
Child's fork and spoon
Date
ca. 1840 - 1855
Medium
Silver
Dimensions
Part (spoon): 6 5/8 x 1 1/4 x 3/4 in. (16.8 x 3.2 x 1.9 cm)
Part (fork): 6 1/4 x 3/4 x 5/8 in. (15.9 x 1.9 x 1.6 cm)
Description
silver child's fork and spoon with pointed handles, cast in vertical halves, with c-scrolls and trefoil decoration and the engraved initals, "V S O" in script; molded handle sockets fitted with chamfered stems; spoon with squared shoulders and a pointed oval bowl; fork with a pierced bowl and four tines; maker's mark stamped on the underside of the bowl.
Credit Line
Gift of M. F. Savage