DUPRS_0114

DUPRS_0114

Three-tine fork

Heavily deteriorated three-tine fork possibly made out of pewter. One fully intact tine. The shaft has evidence of a wooden handle; has nails to hold wood in place. The shaft is broken at the distal end.

Undetermined

Selective Surface collection, west Stanley Park, Historic Chatham Township (modern Summit, New Jersey)

Drew University, Department of Anthropology, Drew University Passaic River Survey

Not determined - believed to be from Civil War Era (1860s-1870s)

Eme V. Brennan

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Metal

How the Fork Got Its Tines https://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/ceverba1/Class/e5/dl/Fork.pdf
eBay listing https://www.ebay.com/itm/305403881557
O. Winston Link Museum: History Museum of Western Virginia listing https://hswv.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/44EBAC8D-DB0D-41F2-911F-317909974739