City of Aachen Charlemagne Prize Certificate Box
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
1955 - 1956
Materials
Morocco, Parchment
Measurements
55 x 430 x 460 mm
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Chartwell, Kent
NT 1101035.1
Summary
Box covered in maroon Morocco leather decorated with seven circles in gilt. Container for the International Charlemagne Prize of the City of Aachen Certificate awarded to Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874 - 1965), c. 1956. Paired with the certificate in a similarly decorated to folder (NT 1101035.2). Chartwell also holds the accompanying 1955 City of Aachen Charlemagne Prize Medal (NT 1101120). See NT 1101035 for historic details about this prize.
Marks and inscriptions
Signed by the Councillors of the City and inscribed in German
Exhibition history
Very British! A German point of view, Zeitgeschichtliches Forum Leipzig, 2019 - 2021 Very British! A German point of view, Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik, Bonn, Germany , 2019 - 2021
References
Rösgen 2019: Petra Rösgen (ed.), Very British: A German Point of View (exh. cat), trans. David R. Ward, Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bunderepublik Deutschland, 2019