Medal
Category
Coins and medals
Date
Unknown
Materials
metal, enamel.
Measurements
60 x 38 x 5 mm
Order this imageCollection
Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 748812.4
Summary
The medal kept in a cream Jewellers box containing a piece of white tissue paper on top of which sits a piece toilet paper, on which sits Walter Straw's 'PAST PRESIDENT' of 'WORKSOP CHAMBER OF TRADE' medal underneath a pad of wool wadding. Medal - the medal is of 'gold' coloured metal consisting of a bar top with a pin to the rear and 'PAST PRESIDENT' on a blue enamel ground. The medal sits on a single link drop with a decorative scroll edge design. A central blue ground inner oval border carries the words 'WORKSOP CHAMBER OF TRADE' inside of which is a diamond pattern back with a gold scroll at the base carrying the word 'WORKSOP' in black and above which sits a red shield with five gold crowns.
Provenance
Straw collection bequeathed to The National Trust on the death in 1990 of William Straw.