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Object number

FDA-A.444-2015

Object type

Identification

Title

Mudie's National Medals

Description

Wooden box in shape of a book titled 'Series of Medals on British Victories', with 40 medals inside

Comments

In 1917, The Chronicle recorded:
'A collection of British and Colonial coins and medals has been bequeathed to the Museum by Lt. Cuthbert Higgins, W. Yorkshire Regiment (d.w. 1 . 7 . 16)'. It is not clear whether these medals where part of that bequest.
[Eton College Chronicle, Monday, December 31, 1917]

Description

Content (description)

40 bronze medals with portrait on obverse and scene on reverse

Inscription

With ink inscription on inside of lid '29-35. o " u o " z &C:'

Physical description

Red and gilt leather and wooden 'book' box with swing hook clasps to secure (not complete). Padded silk interior, base inset with pale blue/green velvet with recess for each medal. Red and gilded leather numbers by each recess.

Production

Person

Mudie, James (Commissioned by)

Date

1820

History and association

Object history note

Provenance: Possibly bequeathed to Eton College by Lt. Cuthbert Higgins in 1917
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