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2. Latter Day Saint movement and engraved metal plates

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   v. t. e. Engraved metal plates are significant in the Latter Day Saint movement because in 1827, the founder, Joseph Smith, claimed to have obtained a set of engraved golden plates he had found four years earlier after being directed there by an angel. [ 1] He claimed to have translated the engravings on the plates by divine power [ 2] into ...

3. Stolperstein - Wikipedia

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   Stolpersteine for the Feder family in Kolín, Czech Republic Stolperstein installation in Amsterdam Beethovenstraat 55 on 3 October 2018. A Stolperstein (pronounced [ˈʃtɔlpɐˌʃtaɪn] ⓘ; plural Stolpersteine) is a ten-centimetre (3.9 in) concrete cube bearing a brass plate inscribed with the name and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination or persecution.

4. Voree plates - Wikipedia

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   The Voree plates, also called The Record of Rajah Manchou of Vorito,[pronunciation?] or the Voree Record, were a set of three tiny metal plates allegedly discovered by James J. Strang, a leader of the Latter Day Saint movement, in Voree, Wisconsin, United States, in 1845. Purportedly the final testament of an ancient American ruler named "Rajah ...

5. Monumental brass - Wikipedia

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   A monumental brass is a type of engraved sepulchral memorial once found through Western Europe, which in the 13th century began to partially take the place of three-dimensional monuments and effigies carved in stone or wood. Made of hard latten or sheet brass, let into the pavement, and thus forming no obstruction in the space required for the ...

6. Kinderhook plates - Wikipedia

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   Kinderhook plates. Front and back of four of the six Kinderhook plates are shown in these facsimiles, which appeared in 1909 in History of the Church, vol. 5, pp. 374–75. The Kinderhook plates are a set of six small, bell-shaped pieces of brass with unusual engravings, created as a hoax in 1843, surreptitiously buried and then dug up at a ...

7. Art in bronze and brass - Wikipedia

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   The second use of brass is found in a group of locks of intricate mechanism, the cases of which are of brass cast in openwork with a delicate pattern of scroll work and bird forms sometimes engraved. A further development shows solid brass cases covered with richly engraved designs (cf. Fig. 8).