Plate
date: label: date made
content: 1875 - 1915
notes: label: Description
content: Plain-rim, machine-engraved circular plate featuring the coat of arms of Prussia, consisting of a crowned, spreadwing, shield-body eagle bearing Frederick the Great's "FR" monogram and grasping an orb and scepter in its talons. Rim face is decorated in four segments, each with a semicircular, petaled motif against a textured ground; no foot ring. Underside is engraved "N.B." and "Tieling (four-dot diamond)" with "T" scratched to its right on rim, and struck with two touch marks at center of well, the raised serif letters "SP" and "HSS" across a combined figure of an anchor becoming a "4" and "+" at its top, both in shaped shields.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
label: place used
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
topic: label: Subject
content: coat-of-arms
label: Subject
content: Prussia
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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 Miss Mary E. Maxwell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.387160
label: catalog number
content: 387160
label: accession number
content: 175755
objectType: label: Object Name
content: plate
label: Object Type
content: plate
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 9 1/8 in; 1.905 cm x 23.1775 cm