Plate
- Object Name:
- Plate
- Object ID:
- 1967.058.01
- Creator:
- Bush, Robert & Co. -- Pewterer
- Place of Origin:
- Bristol, England
- Date:
- circa 1790
- Description:
- Plate. Pewter. Circular dish with flat bottom and upward-flaring rim with upward-curving, single-reeded edge. Incised line encircling inner bottom surface at base of booge. "AB" engraved in feathered script on bottom, together with two unevenly impressed oval maker's marks enclosing script cipher "RB". First of four impressed hallmarks on bottom reads "B & Co." Paper label on bottom: "214".
- Material:
- Metal
Pewter - Dimensions:
- Dia-12.125 inches
- Provenance:
- Pewter plate, inscribed "AB," said to represent the initials of Anna Brackenbury (1764-1840) of Weare, NH, great-great grandmother of the donor, Woodbury M. Philbrook (1895-1986). Anna Brackenbury married Jonathan Philbrick, Jr. (1763-1818); their son Moody Philbrick (1793-1864) of Weare, NH, married Abigail Jones (c.1799-); their son Moses Currier Philbrick (1827-1906) married Hannah Dodge Woodbury (1835-1916) of New Boston, NH; their daughter Mary Ellen Philbrick (1866-1950) of Weare, NH, married Samuel Chase Philbrook (1863-1924) of Maine. Their son was Woodbury M. Philbrook, the donor.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Woodbury M. and Josephine M. Philbrook
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