Property:Has date made
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Set by Template:Artefact on pages in Category:Artefacts. When the object was made, as the holder's record gives it, in the record's own terms (for example 1858–1864 (circa) or before 1899). Empty when the record gives no date of making. Never an acquisition or entry date: see Property:Has date acquired.
Typed Text, not Date. Museums date objects in phrases a Date cannot hold. Probed on this wiki on 25 September 2026 against a Date property: before 1899 and Possibly before 1868 are accepted without a warning, although a date value has no "before"; a range written with an en dash is accepted and keeps only its first year; 19th century and a range written with a hyphen are rejected. Stored as Date, a museum's dating would be changed or lost without notice. For the same reason a query must not sort on this property to put artefacts in date order; a sort on a property also drops every artefact that lacks it.