Calendar Medal, Nelson Centenary 1805-1905
date: label: date made
content: ca 1904
name: label: Associated Name
content: Nelson, Vice Admiral Horatio Lord
label: maker
content: Grueber, Henry
notes: label: Description
content: This aluminum calendar medal commemorates the hundredth anniversary of the death of the British admiral Horatio Nelson (1758-1805). One side shows a bust of Nelson, facing left. It is stamped: NELSON ˑ CENTENARY ˑ 1805-1905. A shaped disc is pivoted to the other side. This disc rotates so that one can line any month of the year (as marked on the disc) with any year from 1904 to 1925 (as stamped on the rim of the circular disc below). The bottom of the shaped disc has a monthly calendar. An opening above the calendar reveals letters that indicate the days of the week (F S S M, etc.) for the month and year. A mark immediately around the center reads: PATENT APPL .FOR. Text around this states: CALENDAR (/) 1904-1925. A mark around this reads: THE BRITANNIA STAMPING Co LTD RIDGMOUNT St. LONDON.
label: Description
content: The object came to the Smithsonian from the collection of Henry Russell Wray.
label: Description
content: Aluminum calendar discs of this form were designed by the London firm of Henry Grueber & Co, as specified in Grueber’s patent GB189418991. In 1899, this firm took the name Britannia Stamping Company, as is marked on this object. Several examples of Grueber-designed calendar medals, including this one, are discussed by Ackermann.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Silke Ackermann, “Maths and Memory: Calendar Medals in the British Museum Part I,” <I>The Medal</I>, Spring, 2005, vol. 46, esp. pp. 5-9. The example that closely resembles object MA.316919.4 is number 97 in the article, with British Museum catalog number 1948,1203.33.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Calendar
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.316919.4
label: catalog number
content: 316919.4
label: accession number
content: 228694
objectType: label: Object Name
content: calendar medal
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: aluminum (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .3 cm x 3.9 cm x 3.9 cm; 1/8 in x 1 17/32 in x 1 17/32 in