Fish Fork, Croyden Pattern

Artist:Pairpoint Manufacturing Company

Medium: Silver-plate

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Dates:patented July 14, 1883

Dimensions: 6 3/8 x 13/16 x 9/16 in. (16.2 x 2.1 x 1.4 cm)

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Accession Number: 2009.12.1

Catalogue Description:
Flat, long, slight upward turned, rectangular handle, tapering at lower third to a shorter end at join of shaft; short, narrow shaft ending with three, slight upward turned tines, proper right, two narrow pointed tines and proper left, wide tine with cut out at end. Impressed, decoration at top third of handle on a stippled background of narrow pointed leaves, plain reserve; lower third of handle, impressed decoration, cracked raised ice pattern and against a stippled background single flower with a large broad leaf and smaller, narrow leaf. At top and bottom of shaft, inverted triangle design. Condition: tarnish.

Brooklyn Museum