medal
- Museum number
- M.7216
- Description
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Oval gold medal with no reverse. (whole)
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Bust of Thomas Harper, left, hair short, in plain falling collar, and ample mantle covering the shoulders. (obverse)
- Production date
- 1647
- Dimensions
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Height: 34.000 millimetres
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Width: 27.000 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Medallic Illustrations 1, published in 1885, states:
Unique ?
This is struck upon an extremely thin plate of gold, and is the work of Thomas Rawlins. Alveton, or Alton, is mentioned as a parliamentary garrison of forty or fifty men. As Rawlins was the medallist for the royalist party, it is probable that Harper was dispossessed of his house when the Parliament seized it for their purposes.
See Pinkerton, J., ‘The Medallic History of England to the Revolution’, London, 1790 (fol.), xxi. 3.
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Coins and Medals
- Registration number
- M.7216
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: H132
- C&M catalogue number
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MB1 (Medallic Illustrations 1) (330) (172)
