fork, fork
Accession Number
NAM.1979-06-156-1
Description
Fork, 1858-1881 (c). Silver plate, with maker's mark verso, 'W H & S', possibly William Hutton and Sons, 1870 (c). Engraved with regimental device on handle, from the Sergeants' Mess, 100th (or Prince of Wales’s Royal Canadian) Regiment of Foot. Four prongs, square in section with pointed shoulders at join to square fish-tail head. Upon the front is a regimental device: the Prince of Wales's Plumes and Coronet above the number '100', the whole within an upright garter surmounted by a monarchial crown and inscribed, 'PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL CANADIAN REGT', the whole flanked by maple leaf sprays and surmounting a scroll inscribed, 'NIAGARA'. Upon either side of the crown are the initials, 'SM'.
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