Silver medallion presented to S Emanuel to commemorate the visit of HRH Prince Alfred in 1868

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Type: Medallions
Date: 1868
Place: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Materials: Silver
Collection: Emanuel Family collection
Accession number: 2008.0040.0016

Description

Silver prize medallion with "PRESENTED / TO / S.Emanuel. Esq. / FOR / WHEAT." engraved in the centre of the obverse. It is surrounded by a garland that is cast in relief, and "TO COMMEMORATE THE VISIT OF H.R.H. PRINCE ALFRED DUKE OF EDINBURGH K.G. TO SYDNEY / 1868" is around the edge. A staghorn or elkhorn is cast in relief in the centre of the reverse and it is flanked by "PERSISTERE. EST / PROSPERARE". "HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY" is around the edge above it and "NEW SOUTH WALES" is below it. "THORNTHWAITE / SYDNEY" is cast in tiny lettering between the words in New South Wales. The rim of the medallion 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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