IDENTIFIERS
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id:	141245
accession number:	CM.1151-2009

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 15 January 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: After Nelson’s victory at Trafalgar in 1805 the prominent Birmingham industrialist Matthew Boulton distributed about 15,000 Trafalgar Medals at his own expense to participants in the battle. These medals were all in white metal, but subsequent years saw a number of presentation issues in other metals, and between 1860 and 1895 the London die-sinker W. J. Taylor was commissioned by Boulton's heir to produce a new run, which included for the first time an issue in gold of which this piece is one.
The medals all share the same design, which shows a view of the battle, with Nelson’s signal ‘ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY MAN WILL DO HIS DUTY’ above.
As this was not one of the original issues, it had no recipient, and its first owner is unknown. Lester Watson purchased it at some point before 1928.
title:	Boulton's Trafalgar Medal

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Gift of L. Hoyt Watson; ex Lester Watson Collection, bt before 1928


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Coins and Medals
collection:	Lester Watson Collection
creditline: Given by Lester Watson through Cambridge in America, 2009

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141245





TECHNIQUES
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struck

CATEGORIES
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category: medal

DATING
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creation date:	1860 - 1895
creation date earliest:	1860
creation date latest:	1895

CREATORS
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maker: London
maker: Taylor, W. J.
maker: Küchler, Conrad Heinrich

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: mm
value: 48.3

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 73.98



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Imagery of War
CITATIONS
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British Battles and Medals 7th edn
British and other Campaign and Gallantry Medals From the Collection of Lester Watson (d. 1959)
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