File RAS TGM/1/5/6 - Lead pattern for the Gold Medal

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GB 891 RAS TGM-RAS TGM/1-RAS TGM/1/5-RAS TGM/1/5/6

Title

Lead pattern for the Gold Medal

Date(s)

  • [1897 - 1991] (Creation)

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Administrative history

The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland was founded by the eminent Sanskrit scholar Sir Henry Thomas Colebrooke on the 15th March 1823. It received its Royal Charter from King George IV on the 11th August 1824 'for the investigation ofread more

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Scope and content

A lead pattern for the Society's gold medal. A red lead imprint of the front of the medal bearing the banyan tree design. This has been mounted upon a piece of card bearing a label saying that it is signed "Pinches". However this signature no longerread more

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Language of material

  • English
  • Latin

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