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Franklin D. Roosevelt White House Dinner Plate From 1934, in Fine Condition

This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/26/2019

Colorful dinner plate made for the Franklin D. Roosevelt White House, designed by the Roosevelts with the inclusion of the Roosevelt family crest in the scroll pattern around the rim. Ordered in 1934, this service ensured, remarkably for the first time, that all guests of a large state dinner would be eating off the same set of china. Plate by Lenox features the Presidential seal in enamel colors at top, with a band of 48 gold stars (representing the number of states at the time) against a navy background. A scroll of gilt roses and feathers appears under the band of stars, which was incorporated from the family crest of the Roosevelts, whose name in Dutch, ''roos-veldt'' means field of roses. Plate measures 10.375'' in diameter. Manufacturers stamp on the underside in gilt reads, ''The White House / 1934 / L / Lenox / Made in U.S.A. / Wm. H. Plummer & Co., Ltd. / New York City''. Fine condition. Accompanied by a White House invitation from ''The President and Mrs. Roosevelt'' for dinner at The Mayflower hotel on Wednesday the 3rd of March in either 1937 or 1943. From the collection of William H. Perkins, Jr.