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.
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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. |
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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. |
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Accession number | MISC.1185-1991 |
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Record created | July 1, 2009 |
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