Fencing club, fencing master's badge
Also known as: Schermvereniging, insigne van schermmeester
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
c. 1800 - c. 1880
Single-sided badge, consisting of an embroidered cross with four arms covered with gold thread; edges trimmed with small, round, overlapping metal spangles and with a corded border; centre: four-pointed star covered with pink thread and trimmed with gold thread; the whole mounted on green fabric and a strip of blue cardboard.
The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-VG-15-60; its record gives material recorded as textile materials; technique embroidering, sewing; measurements height 5.7 cm x width 3.7 cm x weight 2.99 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.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- textile materials
- Technique
- embroidering, sewing
- Measurements
- height 5.7 cm x width 3.7 cm x weight 2.99 g
- Dimensions museum
- height 5.7 cm x width 3.7 cm x weight 2.99 g
Identification
- Original title
- Schermvereniging, insigne van schermmeester
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- NG-VG-15-60
- Museum classification
- draagteken
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
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