Box for a Medal on the Exposition Universelle de Mérite in Jerusalem in Palestine
Also known as: doos voor een penning op de Exposition Universelle de Mérite te Jerusalem in Palestina
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
c. 1900
Square box with hinged lid, bearing a gilded inscription in six lines, lined on the inside with black felt (base with circular recess) and red silk (lid). The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-2-1190; its record gives material recorded as leather, felt (textile), silk, cardboard; measurements width 9.6 cm x height 9.6 cm x thickness 2.4 cm x weight 65.69 g.
Description translated from the museum's Dutch catalogue text; details are those of this museum object, and how far it represents a wider type has not been independently verified.
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- leather, felt (textile), silk, cardboard
- Measurements
- width 9.6 cm x height 9.6 cm x thickness 2.4 cm x weight 65.69 g
- Dimensions museum
- width 9.6 cm x height 9.6 cm x thickness 2.4 cm x weight 65.69 g
Identification
- Original title
- doos voor een penning op de Exposition Universelle de Mérite te Jerusalem in Palestina
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- KOG-MP-2-1190
- Museum classification
- history medal
Catalogue references
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