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Multiple Purchases can ship together: Buy It Now, use SHOPPING CART - sale wins, wait for invoice --- Will come in a gift bag or box for gifting!!! Many of our items are from an old Yankee New England Maine Family estate ---Hope you find something you can treasure.Pictures are worth 1,000 words, so we let our photos do the talking. Be aware that camera flash and your color monitor can cause color difference ------ Do help us clear house and move things forward!!! Too Much Stuff!!! PLEASE help us offer today -- we are full to the rafters!!! NOTE:::::See our other sales from our FAMILY ESTATE - Closeups are exaggerated so use ruler/coin photo for truer sense of sizeRead Entire Listing please.
Estate Antique late 18th Century to early 19th Century
pair 2-Tine UTILITY Kitchen FORKS -
Carved Bone handles with awesome cross-hatch design work
Age-darkened Bone handle riveted to the tangs. Carbon Steel with good patina. Guesstimate 1790s-1820s-30s
Handles are virtually the same carving, but one is slightly larger... either the carver ran out of material or for some other reason intentionally made one smaller. Could also be a master was teaching an apprentice?
Many people today call these Granny forks. But our predecessors did not!
Great display or treat gently while using! Great for historic reenactments!
Appx. size: each 7\" +/- One slightly longer due to slightly wider longer handle -- Nice size and weight in hand
--NO CLUE as to actual age, but based on the family estate it was in and on comparable items, assuming range circa 1790s into 1820s. If you have any pertinent info, please let us know so we can be correct.
Anyone interested in eighteenth-nineteenth century utilitarian objects should love this!!!
The professional cook\'s preference: Never soak Carbon Steel, never put in a dishwasher, always wipe it frequently during cooking, wash in hot soapy water and hand dry immediately after rinsing. Use mineral oil on rust spots - Grey-bluish patina is good, rust is not. Keep knives well honed before each use.
We can often package many pieces with little -if any- increase in postage, for multiple wins!
ADDITIONAL:
Check out ourother sales and listings, more vintage, antiques, plus charms and charm bracelets, with some general info about vintage sterling:
FYI: it is not unusual for sterling charms to be unmarked from this era:many charms came unmarked on display sales cards that had the maker and metalinfo; as well as jewelry items under a certain weight did not have to behallmarked.
FYI: Rhodium is in the Platinum family of metals.
It was often used in the 50s-70s toplate sterling silver to avoid tarnishing,
In the Rhodium plating process, 925Sterling Silver is given a nickel underplate prior to Rhodium plating. Thenickel is magnetic and causes the magnetic attraction.
FYI: Sterling: .925 silver ----------- European Silver:.800 or .835 or .900 silver
PAYMENT: We accept Paypal - safest for all. US Shipping includes Delivery confirmation
Will combine shipping where safe to do so.
Please refer to photos (coloration is/ may be off due to flash and your monitor!) It is HARD to photograph metal, so please note marks and glare are from PHOTOS BELOW ARE TO SHOW ONE OF THE FAMILY CLIPPER SHIPS -- ALL THE SILVER AND MANY OTHER COLLECTIBLES IN THE sales WE ARE PRESENTLY LISTING IS FROM THIS OLD YANKEE FAMILY ESTATE!(painting is NOT for sale nor for sale -- dust is negotiable)
Will gladly combine shipping where safe to do so!! -- Any time we offer FREE SHIPPING that is to 50-state USA outside has to request if we wilWe areprobably the best packers on . We want you to get your items exactlyas they are when you win them...SOplease take note: we double pack any breakables, we often triplepack antiques, so thataddsweightto thepackage.
A breakable item is unique, a breakable antique is irreplaceable-- so if your10-ounce breakable &/or antique item --- which istheoretically first-class rate --- weighs in at over a pound in packed weight(parcel rate), that is because we double or triple pack/box the item.Everyone gripes at the cost of postage until the item arrives damaged...We will NOT toss your irreplaceable item into a bubble bag just to save you adollar or 2-3 in postage because the risk of damage is too great. Thanksfor your understanding & as Gram said \"WHEN IN DOUBT, DONT\"-
(3) Please only offer on this item if you plan on prompt payment & willCONFIRM AND COMMUNICATE w/in 3 days of winning.
(6) Winning buyer to prepay/must pay S/Ins (We pack VERY WELL, but reserve theright to insist upon insurance against shipping damage or loss) Ifinsurance is declined, winner must assume any loss/damage.
(7) PLEASE make payment within 4 days OR deal may be cancelled.
(8) We do our best to weigh and measure everything according to our highstandards.
(9) We will ship as soon as we are able, after payment is received.Usually a day or two. Bear with us, we are slower than we used to be --And please don\'t gripe about shipping costs to us, we are victims too!!! Takeit up with the Postmaster General at pmgceo(at)usps(dot)gov INTERNATIONALS: Global Shipping only.
(10) As sellers, we leave response after we receive your response. As a buyer,we leave response as soon as we receive and review our items, so ask you pleaseto do the same!PLEASE offer IF YOUSE AGREES!!!! Thank you.
A Word About The CLOTHING / WEARABLES We Sell
PLEASE NOTE: Any clothing /shoes / wearables we list are helping us to clean out our closets and boxes of stored goods.
For all clothing we sell - new and especially used - we check for holes, tears, wear, spots, or any other imperfections before we list.
Whether new or used, we have made every attempt to note any flaws in our sales, butmay miss something.
We ask you to understand that even if we missed something in the description, you are still getting aBARGAINcompared to buying retail, soYOUmay need to have the garment cleaned, get a button replaced, stitch where threads have come loose, whatever...
Many can be worn as they are, but would benefit from a pressing or cleaning at winner\'s discretion -- especially worn garments, or even if clothing in new \"store\" condition, since they have been folded wrapped and packed.
In any event, NO exchanges or returns,
Gramma used to say \"When in doubt, dont!\"
Check our response on clothing we sell: no one has complained yet!!!
“If your knees aren\'t green or muddy by the end of the day,
you seriously ought tore-examine your life.”– Calvin and Hobbes
“Muddy knees have got me all a-quiver…”– Monty Python
