Stencil
date: label: date made
content: 1865 - 1895
notes: label: Description
content: Small, horizontal rectangular stencil cut with the name "Frankie Mead" in ornamented roman letters arched between five-pointed stars and arcs. Plate is turned over along all four edges and countersunk to a zinc frame with horizontal oval window on back. Several office stamps (all in black ink) appear across plate front, including "OFFICE OF", "SALE BY" and "[RETU]RN IN TEN DAYS TO". No other marks.
label: Description
content: Name stencils such as this are often referred to as calling card stencils, but were used to mark a variety of items, including clothing, textiles, boxes or containers, etc.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Eula B. Lewis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0001.1
label: accession number
content: 1987.0001
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0001.1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stencil
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (stencil plate material)
label: Physical Description
content: zinc (frame material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/16 in x 3 in x 1 1/4 in; .15875 cm x 7.62 cm x 3.175 cm