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Confederate navy china


This ironstone china vegetable dish, made by E. F. Bodley and Company, of Burslem, Staffordshire, England, bears the motto of the CSS Alabama, “AIDE TOI ET DIEU T'AIDERA” (loosely translated: “God helps those who help themselves”).


Division of the History of Technology, Armed Forces History
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Behring Center
Gift of Samuel E. Kimball

 

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