Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Plaquette - 125th anniversary of Peter A. Frasse and Co. Inc.
| Location | United States |
|---|---|
| Year | 1941 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Bronze |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Period | Log in to see details |
| Notice | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Rectangular bronze plaquette featuring a relief depiction of Robert Fulton's steamship Clermont under sail, set within a recessed panel against a mountainous riverscape background. Below the vessel, multiple blocks of incuse text fill the field, recounting the history of the Clermont and the Frasse company, with the legend PETER A. FRASSE & CO. INCORPORATED at the top and 125TH ANNIVERSARY / 1816 / 1941 at the bottom, flanking a small cartouche bearing the Frasse Mechanical Steels logo. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | PETER A. FRASSE & CO. INCORPORATED ROBERT FULTON'S "CLERMONT" THE WORLD'S FIRST SUCCESSFUL STEAM-PROPELLED VESSEL MADE HER MAIDEN RUN FROM NEW YORK TO ALBANY ON AUGUST 17, 1807. 133 FEET LONG, WITH A BEAM OF 13 FEET AND A DRAFT OF 2 FEET, SHE WAS POWERED BY A BOULTON AND WATT 24 H. P. BELL CRANK ENGINE. THE WORKING MODEL USED IN HER CONSTRUCTION WAS BUILT IN THE SMALL WATCH-REPAIR SHOP OF HENRI FREDERIC FRASSE, WHO EXPANDED INTO THE "MACHINIST-SUPPLIES" BUSINESS IN 1816. IN CONTINUOUS EXISTENCE SINCE THEN, THE FIRM WAS RENAMED PETER A. FRASSE & CO. IN 1849. 125TH ANNIVERSARY 1816 FRASSE MECHANICAL STEELS 1941 |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Comments | Log in to see details |