IDENTIFIERS
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id:	141379
accession number:	CM.1285-2009

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 Indian Order of Merit, instituted by the Honourable East India Company in 1837, is the oldest award for gallantry of the British Empire. The Order had three classes until 1912, for which medals were awarded in silver, silver and gold and gold respectively, and promotion from one class to a higher was achieved by further acts of bravery.
The receipient of this medal must therefore have been awarded the Order's medal twice at some point between 1837 and 1912, when Indian troops were made eligible for the Victoria Cross thus displacing the original first class, but as the medals were issued unnamed, we do not know who the recipient was. Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.
title:	Indian Order of Merit, 2nd Class

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/141379





TECHNIQUES
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struck

CATEGORIES
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category: medal

DATING
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creation date:	1837 - 1911
creation date earliest:	1837
creation date latest:	1911

CREATORS
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maker: Calcutta
maker: East India Company
maker: United Kingdom

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: mm
value: 40.4

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 42.93



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Imagery of War
CITATIONS
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Medal Yearbook 2001
British and other Campaign and Gallantry Medals From the Collection of Lester Watson (d. 1959)
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