Medallions and Convict Tokens
The Collection holds examples of almost all the official medallions struck to commemorate the great voyages of the day. Convicts too created mementoes for loved ones by smoothing and engraving old coins with sometimes heart-rending messages for those they left behind…
SF000042
Engraved Cartwheel Penny
William Bailey – Artist
1835
Medallions and Convict Tokens
SF000685
The Royal Society Medal, in commemoration of Captain Cook
Lewis Pingo – Artist
1784
Medallions and Convict Tokens
SF000686
The Royal Society Medal, in commemoration of Captain James Cook – Silver 43mm
Lewis Pingo – Artist
1784
Medallions and Convict Tokens
SF000687
The RESOLUTION and ADVENTURE medal
Matthew Boulton
1772
Medallions and Convict Tokens
SF000688
Medal mentioning Captain James Cook’s death in the Hawaiian Islands; “Kill’d by the Indians at O’Why’Hee February 14 1779”
Unknown
1780
Medallions and Convict Tokens
SF000692
Medal commemorating the French expedition of the corvettes GEOGRAPHE and NATURALISTE
Pierre A Montagny – Medallist
1800
Medallions and Convict Tokens
SF000693
Commemorative medal for the La Pérouse expedition
Pierre Simon Benjamin Duvivier – Engraver
1785
Medallions and Convict Tokens
SF000694
Charles X medal for the departure of the first voyage of the ship ASTROLABE
Alexis Joseph DePaulis – Medallist
1826
Medallions and Convict Tokens
SF000695
Commemorative medal for the La Pérouse expedition which sailed in June 1785
Pierre Simon Benjamin Duvivier – Engraver
1785
Medallions and Convict Tokens
SF000696
Medal commemorating the first voyage of Duperrey to the Pacific
Puymaurin & Andrieu – Engraver
1822
Medallions and Convict Tokens
SF000697
Silver medal struck to commemorate the sailing of the URANIE expedition from Toulon in 1817 under Freycinet
Puymaurin & Andrieu – Engraver
1817
Medallions and Convict Tokens
SF000824
Convict love token stamped with the initials JH and SO
Johanna Hore – Maker
1798
Medallions and Convict Tokens
SF000828
Cessation of Transportation
John Craven Thornthwaite
1853
Medallions and Convict Tokens
SF000863
Silver medal to commemorate the centenary of the VOC
Robert Arondeaux – Medallist
1702
Medallions and Convict Tokens
SF001396
Convict love token – William Jennings
William Jennings – Maker
1820
Medallions and Convict Tokens
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Date range: 1793-1849
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Date range: 1768-c1850
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Date range: 1619-1880
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Date range: c1700-c1860
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Date range: c1800-1959
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Date range: 1768-c1850
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Date range: 1694-c1850
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Date range: 1624-1823
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Date range: 1541-1836
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Date range: 1629-1854
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Date range: c1779-c1830
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Date range: 1794-1851
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Date range: c1580-c1850
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New acquisitions, staff favourites and curios
Child’s Mug
The mug is decorated with an underglaze and a blue transfer print. On the body, it is titled ‘Emigrants to Australia’. This type of body and glaze was discontinued by 1840. Comparison of the handle shape and the profile of the foot, point to the attribution of manufacture by the Davenport Factory.
Bronze Ship’s Bell
Delta was a ship-rigged vessel with two decks and three masts. It was built in Dordrecht, Netherlands in 1839 at the shipyard of Jan Schouten and registered in the same port. Its hull was constructed of oak and sheathed in ‘yellow metal’. Delta was owned by H. van der Sande at the time of its loss and was engaged as a cargo trader.
The Delta carried 29 crew and passengers, while sailing from Melbourne to Batavia in ballast when wrecked at Kenn Reefs on 30 May 1854 whilst under the command of Captain J.G. Kunst. This vessel loss supports the pattern of shipwrecks located on a well-travelled shipping route that was poorly charted until the mid-nineteenth century. The crew of the Delta could see four other shipwrecks at Kenn Reefs at the time of their vessel’s loss.
Portrait of CATO
Important image of a ship associated with Matthew Flinders, that would shortly become one of the most famous early shipwrecks in eastern Australian waters. This is a fine ship’s portrait, by one of the great exponents of the art
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Date range: 1541-1836
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Date range: 1629-1890
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Date range: 1793-1849
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Date range: 1768-c1850
Medallions & Convict Tokens
Date range: 1619-1880
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Date range: 1768-c1850
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Date range: 1694-c1850
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Date range: 1624-1823
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Date range: 1541-1836
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Date range: 1629-1854
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New acquisitions, staff favourites and curios
The mug is decorated with an underglaze and a blue transfer print. On the body, it is titled ‘Emigrants to Australia’. This type of body and glaze was discontinued by 1840. Comparison of the handle shape and the profile of the foot, point to the attribution of manufacture by the Davenport Factory.
Delta was a ship-rigged vessel with two decks and three masts. It was built in Dordrecht, Netherlands in 1839 at the shipyard of Jan Schouten and registered in the same port. Its hull was constructed of oak and sheathed in ‘yellow metal’. Delta was owned by H. van der Sande at the time of its loss and was engaged as a cargo trader.
The Delta carried 29 crew and passengers, while sailing from Melbourne to Batavia in ballast when wrecked at Kenn Reefs on 30 May 1854 whilst under the command of Captain J.G. Kunst. This vessel loss supports the pattern of shipwrecks located on a well-travelled shipping route that was poorly charted until the mid-nineteenth century. The crew of the Delta could see four other shipwrecks at Kenn Reefs at the time of their vessel’s loss.
Important image of a ship associated with Matthew Flinders, that would shortly become one of the most famous early shipwrecks in eastern Australian waters. This is a fine ship’s portrait, by one of the great exponents of the art