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Small Trident Shaped Serving Fork with Snail Fork
This is a fork. It was manufactured by C. V. Gibert. It is dated ca. 1890 and we acquired it in 1996. Its medium is silver. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
It is credited Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program, Decorative Arts Association Acquisition, and Sarah Cooper-Hewitt Funds.
Its dimensions are
L x W x D: 15.9 × 3.6 × 1.6 cm (6 1/4 × 1 7/16 × 5/8 in.)
It has the following markings
On base of left tine, stamped: [1] C.V.G. below star inside lozenge (maker's mark for Charles Victor Gilbert) On base of right tine, stamped: [2] illegible mark (possibly boar head mark indicating .800 fineness)
Cite this object as
Small Trident Shaped Serving Fork with Snail Fork; Manufactured by Charles Victor Gibert (French); France; silver; L x W x D: 15.9 × 3.6 × 1.6 cm (6 1/4 × 1 7/16 × 5/8 in.); Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program, Decorative Arts Association Acquisition, and Sarah Cooper-Hewitt Funds; 1996-56-44
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005.
