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- Description
- Single-reeded circular dish with flat well scored at perimeter; no foot ring. Three partial touch marks struck on underside, twice with oval containing a standing spreadwing eagle, body facing right and head turned left, against a textured ground, no inscription; and once with the circular eagle mark of Boardman & Co., New York. One of two dishes, DL*388307A-B.
- Maker is Thomas Danforth Boardman (1784-1873) and Sherman Boardman (1787-1861) of Hartford, CT (in business, 1810-1854) who used the oval eagle mark without letters after 1820 to indicate pieces made in Hartford. The circular eagle mark indicates these dishes were made for and sold by their New York outlet, Boardman & Co., 1825-1827 (run by Lucius Hart, who became partner in the business in 1828 - renamed Boardman & Hart).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- dish
- date made
- 1825-1827
- place made
- United States: Connecticut, Hartford
- place sold
- United States: New York, New York City
- sold
- United States: New York, New York City
- Physical Description
- pewter (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3/4 in x 12 1/8 in; 1.905 cm x 30.7975 cm
- ID Number
- DL.388307A
- catalog number
- 388307A
- accession number
- 182022
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood
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- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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