1592963646000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-141601 1747245966233 1711380522000 1747245848565 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-141601 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141601 197f0d51-f308-3b82-9228-552c217a3cda 8 reference term-42993 adlib-term-42993 93884c6f-c60c-39f7-a75d-f84d65288fe0 medal reference term-122711 adlib-term-122711 1db96904-a474-3b61-a8e5-6c2d9dd557ab Lester Watson Collection Coins and Medals The Order of the Medjidie was founded by Sultan Abdul Mejid of the Ottoman Empire in 1852, as a reward for distinguished services. When the Crimean War began in 1854, therefore, and British and French officers came to the aid of the Empire against Russia, a number of British soldiers, mostly officers but also a few private soldiers whose deeds had particularly distinguished them, were admitted to the order over the course of hostilities and their immediate aftermath. This Badge was awarded to Colonel Lawrence Fyler of the 12th Lancers, whose service in the Crimea earned him two other medals and whose medal group has come entire into the Watson Collection and shows a career spent in India and the East fighting for the Crown from the 1830s to the 1850s. Fyler's medals are not, for the most part, physically attached to each other, although the catalogue of the Watson Collection considers them as Group 8, so the opportunity has been taken to treat them separately here. Nonetheless, it was as a group that Lester Watson bought them, from the London dealers Seaby, in 1929. CM.1504-2009 1 accession number CM.1504-2009 141601 priref 141601 Watson Catalogue 226 ordering M-0390 previous object number LW.0366b uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141601 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141601 Sultan's royal cipher with inscription around on gold-bordered circle of red enamel; whole on star of seven triple quills with small crescents and five-pointed stars between, suspended from red enamelled crescent and star suspender with green enamelled edges obverse [LOYALTY] [PATRIOTISM] [ZEAL] / [1268] design Inscription and marginal engraving on convex silver disc secured to back of star with pins reverse design reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Given by Lester Watson through Cambridge in America, 2009 reference agent-206432 adlib-agent-206432 e0b1da8e-f9e4-30be-9257-f82c89d45afb Watson, Lester 2009 2009 2009 given on loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum 2005-2009 1852 1852 CE 1852 1852 1861 1 1861 CE 1861 1861 ruler reference agent-167861 adlib-agent-167861 7f6388d6-babc-3512-9323-cd79132808bc ‘Abd al-Majid (1823-61) state reference agent-174261 adlib-agent-174261 a08dbde5-902b-35bd-9555-63c9645406ac Ottoman Empire gilt reference term-39778 adlib-term-39778 8bd60ed6-968d-3faf-8ad5-b4e4ee9bb245 silver Diameter mm 48.3 Weight g 36.61 reference media-116753 adlib-media-116753 030af9bc-69ef-3007-b8fe-fe6682be0383 jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0366b_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 180 1742589861309 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0366b_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 180 1742589861309 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0366b_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 180 1742589861309 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0366b_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 180 1742589861309 1 image 0 media image reference media-116754 adlib-media-116754 132e2268-6160-3447-8247-b3f26a77be9e jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0366b_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 192 1742589843967 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0366b_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 192 1742589843967 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0366b_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 192 1742589843967 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0366b_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 192 1742589843967 1 image 1 media image reference term-123122 adlib-term-123122 1a001ee4-aa59-3209-a046-60501a0e6596 Badge of the Order of the Medjidie, 5th Class denomination reference term-98222 adlib-term-98222 b5ccc43a-7491-344e-b6ca-5df39a11c50e medals series reference term-108659 adlib-term-108659 cc732dec-4543-389e-a737-cf22bb7d2ee2 Military subseries reference term-121540 adlib-term-121540 6641cd62-d019-3070-875f-369310472694 Ottoman Empire subsubseries reference term-122717 adlib-term-122717 140af9ad-d215-34d9-9d42-52ecb5d3fead British Army subsubsubseries history note Gift of L. Hoyt Watson; ex Lester Watson Collection. bt Seaby 1929. Left to James Fyler (nephew) on recipient's death 1873. reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 377-378 reference publication-6481 adlib-publication-6481 61f1069f-835a-35ca-a5c2-f822e618f8bf Handbook of British and Foreign Orders, War Medals and Decorations Awarded to the Ar reference publication-5910 adlib-publication-5910 0d1d8526-5493-32bd-93b4-acd4cdcec7f9 British and other Campaign and Gallantry Medals From the Collection of Lester Watson (d. 1959)

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