Bronze Plaquette of Sullivan, Algernon Sydney, Philadelphia, PA. 1940.100.450

Physical Description

• Measurements

  • Weight (in gr.): 211.479
  • Length: 61.8
  • Length: 89.4

Typological Description

• Object Type: Plaquette

• Date on Object

  • Date: 1908
• Manufacture: Struck
• Material: Bronze
• Shape: Rectangular

• Authority

  • Artist: Roiné, Jules Edouard
  • Maker: Joseph K. Davison's Sons

• Geographic

  • Place of Cataloging Relevance: United States
  • Place of Production: Philadelphia (Pa.)

• Obverse

  • Portrait: Sullivan, Algernon Sydney

References

• Reference: Miller.2015.20
• Reference: Baxter.1987.298

Administrative History

• Identifier: 1940.100.450
• Lot: 1940.100
• Department: Medals and Decorations
• Collection: American Numismatic Society

• Provenance

  • Eidlitz, Robert J.

Description

EDGE: DAVISON PHILA, typical Davison red-tan swirl patina (see 0000.999.4310 for French olive patina). Plans had called for five awards each year to top achievers in the New York Bar exams, to be administered by ANS. Plaquettes were housed in blue hardcover books with biographical data and post-mortem tributes. ANS could not administer this ambitious program. From 1925 to 1973 the Southern Society of New York made awards, thereafter more than 20 Southern colleges have bestowed Algernon Sydney Sullivan Awards, several as round medallions with the central reverse design as above.

Rights

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