[Commemorative medal, the John Williams Missionary ship] [realia] / J. Davis
- Bib ID:
- 1489473
- Format:
- Object
- Author:
- Davis, J
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 1844
- 1 medal : silver ; diam. 4.1 cm.
- Series:
- Eighteenth and nineteenth century commemorative medals.
- Notes:
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- Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK5378.
- Part of the collection: Eighteenth and nineteenth century commemorative medals.
- Condition: Good.
- Title devised by cataloguer from medal inscription.
- Inscriptions on medal: Obverse -- The John Williams Missionary ship, launched at Harwich Mar, 20, 1844; 296 tons; length 103 feet; breadth 24 feet8 inches, depth in hold 16 feet; has 10 state rooms; Reverse -- This ship, the property of the London Missionary Society, is intended to convey its missionaries to the Islands of the South Pacific, and to be employed in visiting the different groups of islands in that ocean, in promoting the gospel among them; she has been purchased from a fund of upwards of L.6200, raised by the Juvenile Friends of the Society.
- "J. Davis Birmm."
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-139494467
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This belongs to the Eighteenth and nineteenth century commemorative medals.
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