Old London silver, its history, its makers and its marks (1903)
Howard, Montague · New York, Scribner · leaf 110
he servants time to wash the forks. The first table-forks were two-pronged. Among theCorporation plate of the city of Liverpool are some two-pronged forks that were made in the early eighteenth cen-tury. In the South Kensington Museum are many examplesof Italian and German two-pronged forks of the… … 8o OLD LONDON SILVER for about fifty years (Nos. 33, 34, 35). Four-pronged forkswere first made about 1726, and by the middle of the cen-tury they had superseded those with three prongs. The handles of forks followed the same designs as spoonsof the same period, and what has been said in regard to…
Plate · Silverwork · Hallmarks
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