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Cup Plate
Object/Artifact
Round glass cup plate in pale lavender. A masted ship with flags and the name "Benjamin Franklin" arched over the top. Outside band has stars, anchor with rope, eagle with shield, arrows and olive branch.
1999.13
Genesee Country Village and Museum
circa 1985
3-1/2 in
Glass
McKearin, American Glass, pl. 181, Nos. 21, 22, and 24. Moore, Old Glass: European and American, p. 318, 332, fig. 196.