- Title:
- Medal known as the 'Prince Masons Medal', presented as a prize for the Masonic Female Orphans School in Dublin, Ireland.
- Object name(s):
- Metal; Medal, Ireland
- Brief description:
- Bronze coloured oval and pierced metal medal. On the obverse is a relief depiction of a female figure holding three children, representing Faith, Hope and Charity. This is overlaying a relief cross and anchor crossed in saltire. On the reverse is a relief set square and compass enclosing a triangle bearing the letter 'G'. Suspended from the set square is a relief Seal of Solomon and above is an irradiated All-seeing eye.
- Collection:
- Museum of Freemasonry
- Acquisition method:
- Donation
- Associated concept:
- Medals Freemasonry Ireland
- Associated person:
- Mossop, William, 1751-1805, Medallist
- Comments:
- The Masonic Female Orphan School was founded in 1792 in Dublin. This medal is thought to have been designed as a prize medal for the school.
- Comments:
- The maker's mark 'MOSSOP F' belongs to the celebrated Irish medalist and die maker William Mossop (1781-1804).
- Comments:
- The cataloguing of the medal collection at the Library and Museum of Freemasonry was supported by a grant from Arts Council England in 2013.
- Content - description:
- Female, Faith, Hope, Charity, Children, Cross, Anchor, Set square and compass, Triangle, Seal of Solomon, Rays, All-seeing eye
- Dimension:
- H: 64 W: 52 D: 3.5 Dia: n/a Wt: n/a
- Entry date:
- n/k
- Inscription content:
- 'MOSSOP F'
- Object name:
- Metal; Medal, Ireland
- Object number:
- M2013/1050
- Object production date:
- n/k
- Object production place:
- Ireland
- Reproduction format:
- Digital image
- Technique:
- Struck metal
- User's reference:
- Poole, Herbert, Reverend (1939) A catalogue of masonic medals in the museum of the Province of Worcestershire, Worcester: Library and Museum Committee, Worcester
- User's reference:
- Marvin, William T. R. (1880) The medals of the Masonic Fraternity described and illustrated, Boston: T. R. Marvin and Son, Printers
- User's reference:
- Shackles, George L. (1901) The medals (commemorative or historical) of British freemasonry: a photographic reproduction of medals struck by British lodges and Freemasons, Hamburg: F. W. Radmacher
- User's reference:
- Harris, Trevor I. (2007) The medals and jewels of British Freemasonry: in consultation with and in support of the Library and Museum Freemasons Hall, Great Queen Street, London, WC2B 5AZ, UK: Trevor I. Harris Publications
- User's reference:
- Hamburgishe Zircle- Correspondenz: Die Deutschen Freimaurer-Medaillen von 1742-1905, Volumes 1-7(1898): Hamburg: F. W. Radmacher
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