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Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry,

Description

Maker

Title

Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry

Medium

steel engraving

Materials/Techniques

Dimensions

20.6 x 27.8 cm (8 1/8 x 10 15/16 inches) (plate)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Original--Recto:In brown ink (filling in blanks on printed certificate):Clifton A. HallProvidence19th/June 1867; signed on left:W N Staples ; on right:William Sprague Verso:in pencil in LL:End 1918; on white label in LL in black ink:E(red ink) A/1846In Plate--Text of certificate:Agriculture Manufacturers/AND THE MECHANIC ARTS./The Rhode Island Society FOR THE Encouragement OF Domestic/Industry/admitted_______of______on the________ day of/ ______A. D._____ into the said Society and granted/him all the privileges and rights of a Member thereof for life,/In Testimony of which their Seal is affixed./_____Sect. _________Pres.t

Marks: Stamped in brown ink on verso:R.I.S.D./MUSEUM/OF ARTsurrounded byPROVIDENCE/RHODE ISLANDall inscribed in a circle Blindstamp in LL:THE SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT/OF DOMESTIC INDUSTRYaround a shield with an anchor, all in a circle.

Type

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Clifton A. Hall

Object Number

18.841.2

About

Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry

Original--Recto:In brown ink (filling in blanks on printed certificate):Clifton A. HallProvidence19th/June 1867; signed on left:W N Staples ; on right:William Sprague Verso:in pencil in LL:End 1918; on white label in LL in black ink:E(red ink) A/1846In Plate--Text of certificate:Agriculture Manufacturers/AND THE MECHANIC ARTS./The Rhode Island Society FOR THE Encouragement OF Domestic/Industry/admitted_______of______on the________ day of/ ______A. D._____ into the said Society and granted/him all the privileges and rights of a Member thereof for life,/In Testimony of which their Seal is affixed./_____Sect. _________Pres.t

Marks: Stamped in brown ink on verso:R.I.S.D./MUSEUM/OF ARTsurrounded byPROVIDENCE/RHODE ISLANDall inscribed in a circle Blindstamp in LL:THE SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT/OF DOMESTIC INDUSTRYaround a shield with an anchor, all in a circle.

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