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Knights of Labor Bread Tray
1880-82
Bakewell, Pears & Co.
USA: Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
Pressed glass; non-flint
overall: 1 x 8 3/4 x 11 3/4 in.; 2.54 x 22.225 x 29.845 cm
Museum Purchase
96.053

Knights of Labor Bread Tray; oval, clear pressed-glass with gadrooned edge, wide border band with symbols of commerce, i.e. early railroad marked USM (US Mail), farmer with sickle and sheaf of wheat, horse, ocean-going steam packet; center design of a laborer with hammer in hand, shaking hands with an armored Knight and the legend: "Knights of/ Labor" and "United We Stand/ Divided We Fall."


For further information, Tabbert, Mark A., "American Freemasons: Three Centuries of Building Communities", 2005, p.114, AND Blog post, August 6, 2018, http://nationalheritagemuseum.typepad.com/library_and_archives/2018/08/-knights-of-labor-.html