Name/Title
Plate, CommemorativeEntry/Object ID
1990.011.003Description
8 1/2 inch plate banded with gold. Pale blue sky with clouds tinged with gray and pink. Sky lighter toward horizon. Clipper ship in full sail on dark blue sea with whitecaps.
SPECIAL SIGNIFICANCE: Limited edition
ORIGINAL INSCRIPTION: (On back of plate) Bradex No: 84-G20-23.3/1989 Plate No.: 9528A/"Young America, Homeward Bound" by Charles Vickery/Third Issue in/ The Golden Age of Clipper Ships series./ (Centered in oval) W.S. George/Fine China/Crafted in fine china/ under the hallmark of W.S George, This plate is/produced in an/edition strictly/limited to 150 firing/days maximum.(Handwritten) Thirty years after she departed New York on her maiden passage in 1853, Young America returns home for the last time. (Signed) Charles Vickery
Ceramic art - not for food use - faithful color pigments may poison food.
PERSONAL ASSOCIATIONS: Given in memory of Mr. Howe's grandfather, Capt. Henry Porter Hatch, and his uncle, Emery B. Hatch, both of Islesboro.