Artist/Maker
Gerardus Boyce
(1795 - 1880)
Table forks (2)
1835 - 1850
Place madeNew York, New York, United States, North America
Silver
Each: 8 1/4 × 1 1/8 × 1 in. (21 × 2.9 × 2.5 cm)
Gift of Effie Beekman Borrowe
1939.218-219
DescriptionPair of silver table forks with upturned fiddle handles with short midribs on the front and the engraved initials, "JHB" in script on the underside; flared shoulders and four curved tines; maker's mark stamped on the underside of the handles.Markingsengraved: on the undersides of the handles: "JHB" in script
stamped: on the undersides of the handles: "G. BOYCE" in a conforming rectangle
ClassificationsSILVER