- Title:
- "NOTTINGHAM AND MIDLAND COUNTIES INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION, PRIZE MEDAL, CLASS 2"
- Object name(s):
- awards * medals * Nottingham and Notts.; medal/prize
- Brief description:
- The medal was struck by Alfred Goater, a wholesale stationer, engraver, printer, embosser, etc. of Mount Street Works, Nottingham. The "Nottingham and Midland Counties Working Classes Art and Industrial Exhibition" was held on Horse-Fair Close, Sherwood Street / Shakespear Street, Nottingham (later the University College, Free Library and Free Museum site) and consisted of arts, industrial crafts and inventions on the style of the Great Exhibition in 1851. "Medal; bronze, awarded at the Nottingham and Midland Counties Industrial Exhibition, 1865. Obv: A beehive upon a pedestal decorated with medallions, enclosing the arms of Leicester, Derby and supported by two female figures representing Art and Science with attributes seated on the ground. Below an ornamental shield bearing the Town Arms of Nottingham; between sprays of oak and laurel, the motto upon a ribbon NOTTINGHAM & MIDLAND COUNTIES INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION. R.COATER NOTTM. Rev: Laurel wreath enclosing inscription PRIZE MEDAL CLASS 2 CERTIFICATE OF MERIT AWARED TO [blank] 1865." [Register]
- Collection:
- Nottingham Museums
- Acquisition date:
- 19.05.1926
- Acquisition method:
- gift
- Acquisition source:
- Burton/Mr Frank
- Associated concept:
- numismatica medal
- Association note:
- Chamberlain, Grenville (2011) The Nottingham and Midland Counties Working Classes Art & Industrial Exhibition 1865 Its Prize Medals & Their Maker, published by Grenville Chamberlain, Beeston.
- Dimension:
- Diameter 51mm; weight: 49.61g
- Material:
- bronze
- Object name:
- awards * medals * Nottingham and Notts.; medal/prize
- Object number:
- NCM 1926-108
- Object production date:
- 1865
- Date - association:
- issuer
- Object production date:
- 1865
- Date - association:
- struck by
- Object production person:
- NOTTINGHAM & MIDLAND COUNTIES INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION
- Person's occupation:
- issuer
- Object production person:
- Goater/Alfred
- Person's association:
- medalist
- Person's occupation:
- struck by
- Object production place:
- Nottingham
- Object production place:
- NOTTINGHAM
- Text:
- From old museum label - 'Medal awarded at the Nottingham and Midland Counties Industrial Exhibition 1865. Obv. A beehive between figures of Art and Science. Below Arms of Nottingham. NOTTINGHAM & MIDLAND COUNTIES INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION. (A. Goater Nottm). Rev. Laurel wreath PRIZE MEDAL CLASS 2 WITH CERTIFICATE OF MERIT AWARDED TO [space for name] 1865.'
- Text reason:
- caption
- Use note:
- ???? : Nottingham Castle Museum ; dates and exhibition yet to be defined
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/77ef4b0b-f04b-369c-9a19-d8e54d0c996d
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/77ef4b0b-f04b-369c-9a19-d8e54d0c996d, Nottingham Museums, CC BY
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