Luncheon Fork, Croyden Pattern

Artist:Pairpoint Manufacturing Company

Medium: Silver-plate

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Dates:patented July 14, 1883

Dimensions: 7 x 15/16 x 1 in. (17.8 x 2.4 x 2.5 cm)

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Museum Location: Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor

Accession Number: 2009.12.3

Catalogue Description:
Flat, long rectangular handle,tapering at lower third to a shorter end at join of shaft; short, narrow shaft ending with four, narrow, slight upward turned tines. Impressed, decoration at top third of handle on a stippled background of narrow pointed leaves, plain reserve; lower third of handle, impressed decoration against a stippled background of two flowers, with a large broad leaf and smaller, narrow leaf. At top and bottom of shaft, inverted triangle design. Condition: tarnish.

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