Featured Copper Dish With Writings

The bit of the second line that Aquitaine enhanced looks like "announce the marriage of their daughter." Maybe her mother's name is at the beginning.

 

I would think it’s a plate that they used to print paper copies. But then shouldn’t it be all messed up with ink? Unless it’s been cleaned.

 

Must gave been a "thing" back then. Which anniversary is "copper?" Maybe a gift to the happy couple?

 

7th anniversary - Wood or copper.

 

And Clopper is the eleventieth anniversary.

 

As a copper printing plate, it would have been wiped so that ink remained only in the engraved lines each time it was put through the press, and it would have been wiped clean of ink after use. Is there color in the engraved lines? It might have been specially inked for its present purpose.

 

Ah!

Mr. and Mrs. Barnabus William Baker
announce the marriage of their daughter
Allene Louisa
to
Mr. William Ernest Acton Jr.

 

In the same spirit, but at the other end of the price range (and a step farther removed from original function), are silver seal salvers:



http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O7768/the-walpole-salver-salver-lamerie-paul-de/

excerpt from the essay attached to a different seal salver offered by Christie’s in 2010:
Upon the death of the monarch, or the leaving of office, it was required by law that any seals of Royal authority be broken and defaced. After they were defaced the seals were made available for the last holder of high office as a perk of office. It became the custom by the 17th century for the recipient to commission the leading silversmiths of the day to turn the defaced seal into a piece of wrought plate incorporating an engraved version of the original seal.

https://www.christies.com/lotfinder...-silver-seal-salver-mark-5322475-details.aspx

 

I don't think it was used to print anything,annealing the copper and then "die" stamping/forming it into a dish would have distorted the engraving severely.

 

If it was not used for printing why the mirror image?

 

A fad,novelty item of the time period.Why do people do the things they do? More examples.... https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=tiffany+wedding+invitation+printing+plate

 

You've got me in tears now.

 

I was typing Simpliest way is to read in a mirror...
Then saw a lot of you said same

 

Or maybe they eloped?

 

That's possible too. It was still war-time and he was a naval officer.

 

Remember if you hold down the "Ctl" key & at the same time Scroll Forward with the mouse (if you have a scroller in the middle of it) and you can further enlarge the image!! @Bakersgma, I would definitely say that says "Acton"!!