Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: Beginning in 1981, Lenox began a series of plates celebrating the 13 colonies. Each Christmas a new plate was introduced in the order in which the colonies joined the U.S. Measuring 10 3/4 inches, edged in gold and simply DIVINE, this is the Delaware plate in the series. Dated 1988, this is the 8th in the series (Delaware was the 8th colony to join).