Definition of "nameplate"

No. 6959 is painted in the standard wartime black livery and, like its immediate predecessors, does not carry a nameplate, but the words "Hall Class" have been painted on the middle coupled-wheel splasher.

1944 November and December, “Modified G.W.R. "Hall" Class Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 350

Now the chintzy nameplate is all that distinguishes his work space from those of the photocopier repairperson, diet food company, and kitchen designer down the hall.

1998 December 18, Peter Margasak, “Punk Planet's New Atmosphere”, in Chicago Reader‎