IDENTIFIERS
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id:	156604
accession number:	CM.90-2005

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 30 June 2016

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
title:	medals

NOTES
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type: history note
value: From the estate of the late Mrs Venetia M. Watson, daughter of the artist's descendant Allan Gairdner Wyon


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:	Wyon Collection

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/156604





CATEGORIES
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category: medal

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

CREATORS
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maker: Victoria (1837-1901)
maker: Victoria Patroness
maker: Wyon, Leonard Charles
maker: Royal National Lifeboat Institution
maker: Wyon, William


CITATIONS
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Bravery Awards
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