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Pickle Fork

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Collection Type

  • Cooking equipment

Date

1820-1840

GUSN

GUSN-47989

Description

Silver pickle fork. Colonial fiddle handle. Pointed shoulders with three tines.

Details

Descriptive Terms

pickle forks
silver (metal)
Fork, Serving
Fork, Pickle
Fork, Pickle

Inscription

Engraved: EWC [probably for Edward Wainwright Codman] Struck: Edward Watson

Associated Building

Original to Codman House (Lincoln, Mass.),

Maker

Watson, Edward, d. 1839 (Silversmith)

Location of Origin

Boston, MA, USA

Credit Line

Bequest of Dorothy S.F.M. Codman

Accession Number

1969.717

Places

Massachusetts (United States)

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