Slave Badge
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Description:
1813 copper slave badge currently on exhibit in First Hall stamped, "Carpenter No. 42". The tag is slightly convex and the reverse is stamped with "Lafar", the maker's mark of Charleston silversmith, John J. Lafar.
- Date: 1813
- Dimensions: W-4.9 L-5.1 cm
- Makers Mark: LAFAR on reverse
- Collection: Slave Badge Collection
- Object Name: Badges
- Object Id: MG 175
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