plaque
Grand Manan Museum
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| Object Name: | plaque |
| Category: | Communication Artifacts |
| Sub-category: | Ceremonial Artifact |
| Discipline: | local history |
| Material: | wood, pine metal |
| Technique: | factory made handmade engraved |
| Accession Number: | x 2009.49.01 |
| Museum Collection: | local history |
| Origin-Province: | New Brunswick |
| Origin-Country: | Canada |
| Use-Province: | New Brunswick |
| Use-Country: | Canada |
| Description: | The base of the plaque is Grand Manan pine. The plaque itself is metal with engraved lettering and image of a Brigantine. There are nials mounted below the metal portion. Natural pine colour. Metal plate is black with gold coloured lettering. |
| History of Use: | This piece was prepared especially for display in the Grand Manan Museum. |
| Width: | 27 |
| Unit-Linear: | cm |
| Quantity: | 1 |
| Additional Associations: | the museum has many items connected with the wilcox family |
| Inscription: | dedicated to the memory of elmer naaman wilcox, forrest sherwood, wilcox, thelma m. stuart beck by sybil card crawford - descendants of charles dyer wilcox, who along with silas card established the card-wilcox shipyard at deep cove where the brigantine "exil" was built in 1840e |
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| Institution City: | Grand Manan |
| Institution Province: | New Brunswick |
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