Silver Badge, Philadelphia, PA. 0000.999.56564

Physical Description

• Measurements

  • Length: 55.3
  • Length: 35.4

Typological Description

• Object Type: Badge
• Manufacture: Struck
• Material: Silver
• Shape: Round

• Authority

  • Maker: Bailey, Banks & Biddle

• Geographic

  • Place of Cataloging Relevance: United States

References

• Reference: Bishop-Elliott American "Society Medals, an Identification Guide," appendix Societies known or strongly believed my the authors to have (or have had) a wearable insignia... page 282.

Administrative History

• Identifier: 0000.999.56564
• Lot: 0000.999
• Department: Medals and Decorations
• Collection: American Numismatic Society

Description

Pale blue moire ribbon with red-white-red edging. Marvelous quality insignia of an otherwise unknown group. Lee Bishop and J. Robert Elliott (American Society Medals) worked in the ANS collection ca. 1995, devoting page 285 to suitable thanks to the Society.

Rights

• CopyrightHolder: American Numismatic Society
• License: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) (images)
• Rights: Copyright Undetermined