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School Attendance Medal

1904 - 1911 (made)

Bronze-coloured metal circular medal hanging from a royal blue petersham ribbon with a safety pin at the top. Obverse features female Classical figure; reverse features laurel garland with inscription, date, and name D. M. Radband. Two further embossed metal bars have been added to the ribbon.


Object details

Categories
Children & Childhood
Education & Learning
Object type
School attendance medal
Materials and techniques
Metal, embossed and engraved.
Brief description
Disc-shaped medal of bronze-coloured metal hanging from a pin and blue ribbon; a figure representing Learning on one side and a laurel garland on the other; UK, 1904-5
Inscription: (obverse) OXFORD EDUCATION COMMITTEE; (reverse) NEVER ABSENT NEVER LATE D.M.RADBAND 1904-5 (and award bars for 1907-8 and 1910-11); Bronze-coloured metal; British, 1904-5 (dated)
Physical description
Bronze-coloured metal circular medal hanging from a royal blue petersham ribbon with a safety pin at the top. Obverse features female Classical figure; reverse features laurel garland with inscription, date, and name D. M. Radband. Two further embossed metal bars have been added to the ribbon.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 3.8cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • OXFORD EDUCATION COMMITTEE (Obverse)
  • NEVER ABSENT NEVER LATE D.M.RADBAND 1904-5 (Reverse)
Credit line
Given by Mavis L. Robson
Object history
Awarded to the donor's mother, Dorothy Radband, born at Bampton Green, Oxfordshire, 29 July 1898. She attended the village school between the ages of three and thirteen.
Collection
Young V&A Collection
Accession number
MISC.1185-1991

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Record createdJuly 1, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1126927/school-attendance-medal/
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