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Silver medallion fom Royal Agricultural Society of Western Australia presented to S Emanuel in 1905

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CC BY-SA 4.0
Type
Medallions
Date
1905
Place
Western Australia, Australia
Materials
Silver
Collection
Emanuel Family collection
Accession number
2008.0040.0017

Description

Silver prize medallion with '1905 / Single / Carriage Horse / "TOM" / won by / I. S. Emanuel' engraved in the middle of the obverse, between a sprig of wheat and a sprig of Sturts Desert Pea, which are cast in relief. A swan is cast in relief in left profile in the middle of the reverse. It has 'FOUNDED / 1831' below it, and 'ROYAL * AGRICULTURAL * SOCIETY * OF * WESTERN * AUSTRALIA' around it. There is a ring of bumps around the edge. 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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