Silver Yass medallion presented to S Emanuel in 1878

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Type: Medallions
Date: 1878
Place: Yass, New South Wales, Australia; Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Materials: Silver
Collection: Emanuel Family collection
Accession number: 2008.0040.0014

Description

Silver prize medallion with "Awarded / To / S. EMANUEL / for best / COW / WILD FLOWER / 1878" engraved in a disk in the centre of the obverse. The disk is surrounded by a wreath that is cast in relief, and "PALMAN QUI MERUIT FERAT" is in the border around it. "HARDY BROS" is cast in tiny letters near a star below the wreath. "YASS / PASTORAL / AND / AGRICULTURAL / ASSOCIATION" is cast in relief in the centre of the reverse, and it is surrounded by a garland of flowers. Types that are identifiable are; Wattle Blossum; Waratahs; Sturt's Desert Pea; and possibly Hibiscus. The medallion is bent and the rim is dented.

About the collection

The Emanuel Family collection comprises prize cups, medallions, cattle branding irons, office ledgers and equipment, maps and photograph albums associated with the pastoral activities of the Emanuel family in New South Wales and Western Australia. The objects in this large collection date from the 1860s to the 1960s and are generally in good condition. The Emanuel Family collection records dynamics of capital and power which drove the expansion of Australian pastoralism in the nineteenth century, and which maintained pastoral empires throughout the twentieth century. The Emanuel family pioneered the west Kimberley region in the 1880s. Solomon Emanuel, head of an established mercantile and pastoral family based in Goulburn, helped fund the expansion of the Durack family from Queensland into the east Kimberley. His sons Isadore and Sydney established a chain of stations across the west Kimberley. With Alexander Forrest they secured a monopoly over the live cattle trade between Derby and Fremantle. The Emanuel family sold their west Kimberley pastoral stations in 1984.

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