Meakin Vintage Embossed Border Square Plate Audubon Bird Plate #168 Fork Tailed Flycatcher Osbourne House Plate Condition: Bowl has several cracks

Condition:  Bowl has several cracks professionally repaired but you can see (if you look very closely) some of the places where the pieces were repaired

England sometime around 1850-60

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Meakin Vintage Embossed Border Square Plate Audubon Bird Plate #168 Fork Tailed Flycatcher Osbourne House Plate Condition: Bowl has several cracksFor consideration is this gorgeous, square shaped, vintage English transferware plate #168 from Alfred Meakin featuring the Ford Tailed Flycatcher amongst branches of flowering botanicals and berries from illustrations by John Audubon. Born in Les Cayes, in what is now Haiti, on April 26, 1785, he was an illegitimate son of French plantation owner Captain Jean Audubon and his Creole servant Jeanne Rabin. He was given the name Jean Rabin at birth,