Nobel Prize certificate
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
1926
Materials
Leather, vellum, ink, gold
Measurements
395 x 585 x 9.5 mm
Collection
Shaw's Corner, Hertfordshire
NT 1275643
Summary
Nobel Prize for Literature 1926 George Bernard Shaw's certificate for the Nobel Prize for Literature, awarded in 1926. A leather bound certificate on velum, with Shaw's initials embossed on the front cover. Hand calligraphy with gold paint and leaf. Signed.
Provenance
The Shaw Collection. The house and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust by George Bernard Shaw in 1950, together with Shaw's photographic archive.
References
National Book League (Great Britain), Bernard Shaw:, 1946?, p.46