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Butter dish lid
A lid from butter dish used on board the paddle steamer 'Precursor'. One of a pair of Sheffield plate butter dish lids, each surmounted by a hallmarked silver model of a sitting cow. The fluted lid is engraved on one side wih a broadside view of a paddle steamer at sea under sail and steam, identified as 'PRECURSOR.'
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Object Details
| ID: | PLT0233 |
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| Collection: | Decorative art |
| Type: | lid, butter dish |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wilkinson, Henry, & Co |
| Places: | Sheffield |
| Vessels: | Precursor 1841 |
| Date made: | 1840 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Overall: 34 mm; Diameter: 113 mm |