Context (Display)
Object mounted on plain paper-wrapped display board, mounted with metal pins. This form of mounting possibly indicates the item was on display in Peterhouse before the museum moved to its current site on Downing Street. Hand-written label on display board reading in black ink: 'Two pronged FORKS circa 1750. C.A.S.'
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Context (Related Documents)
See 'Report on Collections Research and Cataloguing Project on Post Medieval 'To Be Disposed Of' Material' by David Kay in the archive (Doc.474) for background information.
Event Date 2019
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Description (Physical description)
Fork TEMP.01874.1 with two prongs and a baluster stem and octagonal bolster of iron or steel with a pistol grip handle of white bone. Fork TEMP.01874.2 with two prongs and a tapered octagonal stem of iron or steel with a pistol grip handle of brown-yellow bone.
Event Date 27/7/2022
Author: Lucie Carreau