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  2. Kinderhook plates - Wikipedia

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    Kinderhook plates. Front and back of four of the six Kinderhook plates are shown in these facsimiles, which appeared in 1909 in History of the Church, vol. 5, pp. 374–75. The Kinderhook plates are a set of six small, bell-shaped pieces of brass with unusual engravings, created as a hoax in 1843, surreptitiously buried and then dug up at a ...

  3. Drake's Plate of Brass - Wikipedia

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    Drake's Plate of Brass is a forgery that purports to be the brass plaque that Francis Drake posted while anchored in Drake's Bay in Northern California in 1579. The hoax was successful for 40 years, despite early doubts. After the plate came to public attention in 1936, historians raised questions regarding the plate's wording, spelling, and ...

  4. Golden plates - Wikipedia

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    According to Latter Day Saint belief, the golden plates (also called the gold plates or in some 19th-century literature, the golden bible) [ 1] are the source from which Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon, a sacred text of the faith. [ 2] Some accounts from people who reported handling the plates describe the plates as weighing from 30 ...

  5. Letter box - Wikipedia

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    A letter box, letterbox, letter plate, letter hole, mail slot or mailbox is a receptacle for receiving incoming mail at a private residence or business. For outgoing mail, post boxes are often used for depositing the mail for collection, although some letter boxes are also capable of holding outgoing mail for a carrier to pick up.

  6. Vehicle registration plates of Alabama - Wikipedia

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    Until 1980, the license year was October 1 to September 30. Porcelain plates were originally used, before the state switched to embossed metal plates in 1915. The 1916–17 plate was the first to feature the year of expiration, while the 1921–22 plate was the first to use a horsepower class system, with each class denoted by a letter. [3]

  7. Hot metal typesetting - Wikipedia

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    In printing and typography, hot metal typesetting (also called mechanical typesetting, hot lead typesetting, hot metal, and hot type) is a technology for typesetting text in letterpress printing. This method injects molten type metal into a mold that has the shape of one or more glyphs. The resulting sorts or slugs are later used to press ink ...

  8. Monumental brass - Wikipedia

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    A monumental brass is a type of engraved sepulchral memorial once found through Western Europe, which in the 13th century began to partially take the place of three-dimensional monuments and effigies carved in stone or wood. Made of hard latten or sheet brass, let into the pavement, and thus forming no obstruction in the space required for the ...

  9. Vehicle registration plate - Wikipedia

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    A vehicle registration plate, also known as a number plate ( British, Indian and Australian English) or license plate ( American English) or licence plate ( Canadian English ), is a metal or plastic plate attached to a motor vehicle or trailer for official identification purposes. All countries require registration plates for road vehicles such ...

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