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Ruler:
Victoria (1837-1901)
(Struck in the name of)
Ruler:
Victoria Patroness
(With the title of)
Die-engraver:
Wyon, Leonard Charles
Issuer:
Royal National Lifeboat Institution
Artist:
Wyon, William
(After)
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has since its inception in 1824 awarded medals for gallantry to its volunteers for particular deeds of merit in rescues. The medals are awarded in bronze, silver or gold and given very sparingly, so that to receive one is the mark of a genuinely impressive action. The medal was created in 1824, but the piece here, a bronze specimen from the workshop of the designer Leonard Wyon, records also the date of the Institution's incorporation in 1860 and shows a later portrait of Victoria, and must be the prototype of the medal's updated version made at that time. The Museum also has a still later update from the reign of George V.
History note: From the estate of the late Mrs Venetia M. Watson, daughter of the artist's descendant Allan Gairdner Wyon
Method of acquisition: Given (2005-01-31) by Watson, Philip Charles
Production date: inferred AD 1860
Bronze specimen with number `664' inscribed on edge
Object composed of bronze Diameter 35.0 mm Die Axis 0 degrees Weight 27.05 g
Inscription present: Head of Victoria, wreathed, left, with inscriptions around
Inscription present: Three men, draped, in a boat right, two manning oars and third lifting fourth man, half-draped, from waves, with inscription around above
Accession number: CM.90-2005
Primary reference Number: 156604
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Coins and Medals
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