
CATALOG ID: P-12000
New York State Seal
The New York State seal and motto (Excelsior) are featured on the doorknobs from the Empire State's capitol in Albany. Designed and built over 32 years by three teams of architects (including Eidlitz, Richardson, and later Isaac Perry), this building shows what was then the nation's most populous state could build duringin the Gilded Age. Formerly catalogued as O-110.
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About this record
“New York State Seal” (catalogue P-12000) is an antique doorknob recorded in the Public Buildings/Seals category (Category P, Seals) of the Antique Doorknob Collectors of America archive. It was made by Lockwood, c. 1911. The pattern belongs to the Emblematic school of ornament.
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