Dish
date: label: date made
content: 1777-1818
notes: label: Description
content: Small, single-reeded circular plate with flat well scored around perimeter; no foot ring. Underside struck near center with lion-rampant-in-circle touch mark of Thomas Danforth III, and scratched "CBX" to the right.
label: Description
content: Maker is Thomas Danforth III (1756-1849) of Middletown and Stepney (Rocky Hill), CT; working 1777-1818. He opened shop in Philadelphia circa 1806/7 and was joined by fellow CT pewtersmith Blakeslee Barnes (or Blakslee Barns, 1781-1823) in circa 1807/9. Danforth returned permanently to CT around 1811.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Stepney
label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Joseph H. Kler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0027.33
label: accession number
content: 1986.0027
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0027.33
objectType: label: Object Name
content: plate
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 6 1/8 in; 1.5875 cm x 15.5575 cm