IDENTIFIERS
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id:	141249
accession number:	CM.1155-2009

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: The Battle of Bunker Hill is now famous in American history and folklore as the engagement in which it was first made clear that the American colonists' militia could match and defeat the forces of the British Army sent to quell the insurgency that would result in the Declaration of Independence.
This is a copy made by electrolysis of a silver star awarded to one of the British officers wounded in the battle, Captain Ewing. The engraving reads: "By Order of the King with 300 pounds of the Wound Capt Ewing Recvd the 17 of June 1775".
Lester Watson purchased the copy from the London dealer Baldwin in 1937.
title:	Bunker Hill Medal

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Gift of L. Hoyt Watson; ex Lester Watson Collection, bt Baldwin 1937


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/141249





TECHNIQUES
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electrotyped

CATEGORIES
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category: medal

DATING
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creation date:	1775 - 1775
creation date earliest:	1775
creation date latest:	1775

CREATORS
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maker: London
maker: George III (1760-1820)
maker: United Kingdom
maker: Georgius Rex Imperator

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: mm
value: 48.7

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 10.82



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