Salver
date: label: date made
content: ca 1880
notes: label: Description
content: Flat circular tray on three cast pointed feet with a raised and shaped edge of six bracketlike segments separated by six scallops, and a conforming, applied cast beaded rim punctuated by six scroll-sided shield shapes. Obverse has a flat-chased band of scroll-filled ovals and serpentine-sided segments encircling the engraved gothic or Old English letters "MRC" at center, and is struck at upper right of monogram with a combined mark of a raised gothic or Old English "I" in curved shield, "D" in clipped-corner incurved rectangle, "&" in round-bottom shield and "S" in a X'ed diamond or lozenge, next to a curved shield containing "P N / S". Rim underside with incuse stamps "667", "N" and an imperial crown. Pentagonal tag applied to tray underside is embossed with the Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom above "JAMES DIXON & SONS / SHEFFIELD."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Sheffield, Sheffield
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Daniel Gardner
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.1066
label: catalog number
content: 60.1066
label: accession number
content: 115031
objectType: label: Object Name
content: salver
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 10 5/8 in; 2.54 cm x 26.9875 cm