Casket Plaque of William Benjamin Rodrick
ClassificationsSculpture-plaques
Date1872
MediumSilver
Credit LineBowers Museum Collection
Object number32790.1
DescriptionDated 1872, this silver plaque was most certainly removed from the end of a casket. William Benjamin Roderick died at 29. This plaque, along with another plaque from the casket of Henry William Metzger, was found in 1965 in the back of the truck of the Bowers Museum’s gardener, Andy Anderson, while he was working on the museum’s lawn. How these two silver plates got out of the ground, across at least part of the continental United States to California and into the back of the truck has remained one of the grandest mysteries of the Bowers.On View
Not on view
Early 20th Century
Early 20th Century
c. 1927
Early 20th Century
1936-1949
1936-1949
