Mount Vernon Cypher Wheel Secret Decoder plate wheat and barley

wheat and barley

after shifting from tobacco to wheat as his main cash crop

Decorative red buttons accent the neckline

the piazza served as a welcome venue for late afternoon or evening tea

a British company

Mount Vernon Cypher Wheel Secret Decoder plate wheat and barleyGeorge Washington, America's first spymaster, considered the accumulation of secret intelligence one of the most important weapons in winning the war. In his term as Washington's Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson devised a cylindrical cypher wheel, an ingenious and secure method to encode and decode messages. Mount Vernon's all wood version of the secret decoder wheel features 12 cylinders which can relay a 12 letter message. Instructions included.