Collection Highlights
Masonic apron
Date:
1780-1800
Object Number:
1951.523ab
Medium:
Silk, metal
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
New York City Tercentennial Medallion
Object Number:
1954.130
Date:
1953
Medium:
Bronze; cardboard, paper
Dimensions:
case: 3 x 3 x 5/8 in. ( 7.6 x 7.6 x 1.6 cm )
diameter: 2 3/8 in. ( 6.1 cm )
Marks:
Inscription: obverse, at lower right of image: "KILENYI"
Inscription: case lid, top, imprinted in black: "Commemorating/New York City's/300th Anniversary/1653 -- 1953
Inscription: case lid, inside, center, imprinted in black: "L. G. BALFOUR CO./ATTLEBOR
Description:
Bronze struck medal with obverse showing group of seventeenth-century Dutch settlers with Manhattan skyline in background; legend below: "THREE CENTURIES." Reverse shows seal of New York surmounted by eagle and flanked by figures of European settler, at left, and Native American, at right with scroll inscribed: "SIGILLVM.CIVITATIS.NOVI.EBORACI." and dated "1664" below; legend above: "COMMITTEE FOR NEW YORK CITY'S 300TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION"; inscription: "1653 1953/THE CITY OF NEW YORK/COMMEMORATING THE/TERCENTENNIAL/OF ITS FOUNDATION." Square cardboard case with blue paper lining.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Home Title Guaranty Co.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
