Category 4: Tools & Equipment for Materials➔Food Service T&E➔Eating & Drinking Utensils➔Fork, Eating➔Fork, Dinner
Artifact
Accession Number:
74-10-44f
Date
1900Description
Dinner fork, made of steel (which most likely has been tinned). On the end of handle on fork is a curved lines design.
Back of handle is marked "Made in U.S.A.", and right below it is also marked "650 W B over W". The 650 is the model number, and the W B over W stands for Wallace Bros., Wallingford, Conn., which is the manufacturer of the fork.
The manufacturers branches are in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco.
Their U.S. federal trademark registration was filed for WB/W by R. Wallace & Sons Manufacturing Company, Wallingford on Monday, June 17th,1895.
Fork is circa 1897-1900.Materials
tinned steelMeasurements
7 1/4 in. L x 1 in. W Category
Fork, Dinner