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 Fork with Mother-of-Pearl Handle. Circa 1760.'
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)
Table fork with two long tines on a baluster stem of steel or iron and a mother-of-pearl handle which is round in profile and framed on top by a silver ferrule embossed with one reeded border and invected edges.
Event Date 6/11/2023
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung