Blatchford Family Crest enameled in China on the center of a 19 Century Chinese Rose Medallion Porcelain Plate circa 1850's - 1860's. Light wear to the enamels, 2 small hairlines from the edge. Diameter 8 inches (20.3 cm.). NOTE: This service most likely belonged to Eliphalet Wickes Blatchford, 1826-1914, who by the 1850's was successful fabricating lead, especially lead pipes for plumbing, marrying in 1858 all out of the Chicago area ( the family papers are on deposit with the Newberry Library in Chicago), with more wealth coming with the manufacture of bullets for the Civil War in the 1860's and through the 1890's.