FOR SALE: LAFAYETTE Legacy Collection Series. Collector plate set complete with Lafayette in America 1st edition signed bicentennial book and hand made authenticated, numbered and engraved signatures in 13 inch solid mahogany frames with all paperwork including original purchase papers, letter from company for original frame order, Bradford Exchange sheet for March 1976, newspaper ad with information about these limited quantity collector plates imported from France, clipping is from Detroit News December 19, 1975. Plate I: #659: ”The Marquis de Lafayette in December 1776 signs secretly his establishment in the Army of the Insurgents in the presence of Silas Deane, the American Agent.” Frame # a4898 Plate II: #379: ”The Marquis de Lafayette accompanied by the Baron De Kalb disembarks from his ship Victoire the 13th of June 1777, at North Island in South Carolina.” Frame # a5575 Plate III: #856: ”After a dinner at the City Tavern of Philadelphia, the 13th of July 1777, George Washington invites the Marquis de Lafayette to join his General Staff.” Frame # a5570 Plate IV: #201: ”The 11th of September 1777, the Battle of Brandywine, the Marquis de Lafayette wounded in the leg, encourages and flings his men into the attack.” Frame # a4887 Plate V: #494: ”Lafayette remits messages from congress to Benjamin Franklin, American Minister, in February 1779, at the Hotel Valentinois, in Passy.” Frame # a4919 Plate VI: #190: ”Lafayette with Washington and Rochambeau at the Siege of Yorktown in October, 1781, forces Englishman Cornwallis into surrender (the capitulation).” Frame # a5798 Plate VII: #422: We are also including the Celebration of the Triumphal Return as a bonus. Frame # a5574 Issued at the behest of the LEsprit de Lafayette Society, the Lafayette Legacy Plate Collection commemorates the establishment of the United States of America and the role played in that establishment by Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquise de Lafayette, who stood above all others of his time in the multi-national pursuit of political liberty and united the hearts of French and American Citizens in its cause for the generations to come. This edition portrays six single moments in Lafayettes American Revolutionary War career in original art by AndreRestieau, O.L.P., on DArceau-Limoges porcelain fired to the Grellet Standard of 1773. The allegoric border design or frieze by Restieau was taken from the carvings of the solid gold hilt of the Sword of Honor commissioned by the Congress of the United States and presented to General Lafayette in 1779. This collectors plate commission is the first ever accepted by either the artist or the porcelain house and the first ever granted by the LEsprit de Lafayette Society for a commemorative art-object of any kind. No comparable edition will be issued for the next one hundred years. Selling for 350 Cash OBO Poca, WV
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