School Badge

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School badge of St Leonards School, St Andrews, Fife. The badge is
elliptical, and made of navy blue ribbon fabric woven with the school
crest of a red shield with two lions rampant flanking a tudor rose gules
on a chevron argent, superimposed on a saltire argent with a
mitre or and the motto "AD VITAM". Around the border are the words
"St Leonards School St Andrews, Fife Founded 1877".

Object details

Categories	Children & Childhood Education & Learning Children's Clothes Scotland
Object type	School badge
Materials and techniques	Woven ribbon fabric
Brief description	for St Leonard's School, St. Andrews, Fife; Scottish, about 1901
Physical description	School badge of St Leonards School, St Andrews, Fife. The badge is elliptical, and made of navy blue ribbon fabric woven with the school crest of a red shield with two lions rampant flanking a tudor rose gules on a chevron argent, superimposed on a saltire argent with a mitre or and the motto "AD VITAM". Around the border are the words "St Leonards School St Andrews, Fife Founded 1877".
Dimensions	Height: 7.15 cm Width 2: 3.8 cm
Object history	References: Worn by the donor's mother, Margaret McQueen Hamilton (born 1890), who attended the school from 1896, beginning with the junior establishment, St Catherine's.
Production	Scotland
Collection	Young V&A Collection
Accession number	B.48-1993

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Record created	April 19, 2000
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O37817/school-badge/

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