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  2. Charger (table setting) - Wikipedia

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    The word "charger" originated around 1275–1325 from the Middle English "chargeour", coming itself from the latin word carricare, meaning “to load". [2] Formerly, a charger signified either a large platter or a large, shallow dish for liquids. [3] They are usually larger than most common dinner plates. Since they are not used for food ...

  3. Velvikudi inscription - Wikipedia

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    The Velvikudi inscription is an 8th-century bilingual copper-plate grant from the Pandya kingdom of southern India. Inscribed in Tamil and Sanskrit languages, it records the renewal of a grant of the Velvikudi village to a brahmana by the Pandya king Nedunjadaiyan Varaguna-varman I alias Jatila Parantaka (r. c. 768—815 CE) in c. 769-770 CE.

  4. Wulfing cache - Wikipedia

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    The Wulfing cache, or Malden plates, are eight Mississippian copper plates crafted by peoples of the Mississippian culture. They were discovered in Dunklin County, Missouri in 1906 by Ray Grooms, a farmer, while plowing a field south of Malden. [1] The repousséd copper plates were instrumental to archaeologists' developing the concept known as ...

  5. Mississippian copper plates - Wikipedia

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    Unworked copper nugget. The native copper, as well as the technique of cold working it, is believed to have come from the Great Lakes area, hundreds of miles to the north of the Cahokia polity and most other Mississippian culture sites, although the copper workshops discovered near Mound 34 at Cahokia are so far the only copper workshops found at a Mississippian culture archaeological site. [5]

  6. Etowah plates - Wikipedia

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    Etowah plates. Rogan Plate 1, falcon dancer plate found at Etowah, but believed to be fabricated at Cahokia in the 13th century. The Etowah plates, including the Rogan Plates, are a collection of Mississippian copper plates discovered in Mound C at the Etowah Indian Mounds near Cartersville, Georgia. Many of the plates display iconography that ...

  7. Transfer printing - Wikipedia

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    The plate printed glue onto the bat, which was then transferred to the piece, and powdered pigments were then added, which stuck to the glue. The technique was associated with the introduction of stippling rather than line engraving as the technique used on the copper plates. [4] The process was much more complicated, and little used after ...

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