• Title
  Medal awarded to Hannibal Macarthur Esq. for importing fine wool grown by him in New South Wales, 1824
• Creator
  Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)
• Call number
  R 3
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1824
• Type of material
  Medals
• Reference code
  442540
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Objects - 52 mm. diameter - case hinge broken - 1 silver medal in velvet-lined round presentation timber case
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  This medal was previously thought to have been presented by the Manchester Chamber of Commerce; however it is the same as another held in the Library (that presented in 1823 to Gregory Blaxland, R 266), and it is more likely that the same society presented this one
  Digital order no:Album ID : 874381
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Arts and commerce promoted: -- embossed on obverse
  "W Wyon" -- embossed on obverse [fecit]
  "To Hannibal Macarthur Esq. MDCCCXXIV / Socy. Insd. London 1753 / for importing fine wool grown by him in New South Wales" -- engraved on reverse
  "Presented by / The Chamber of Commerce / Manchester / 1824 / For the 1st Australian / Wool Exhibited / in / England" -- handwritten on label affixed to inside of lid case
  "Silver medal /1824 / H.H. Macarthur / Graceville Brisbane / 15.10.45" -- inscribed on card held with medal
• Topic
  medals
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Macquarie the Governor, 1810 to 1821
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1028200

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