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Object number

FDA-A.445-2015

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

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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