1592970597000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-141579 1747245965990 1711380518000 1747245848565 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-141579 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141579 536c0502-b6e2-3381-9282-4e5653d35aec 7 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 India Medal of 1895 having needed alteration for its last issues due to the death of Queen Victoria, in 1908 it was decided to replace it entirely with a new medal of Edward VII, first issued in 1909. When the first issue was made under King George V, in 1911, Richard Garbe designed a new obverse but the medal was otherwise unaltered. Part of the border between India and Tibet is settled by the isolated tribe known today as the Adis. The Indian troops campaigning against this people between October 1911 and April 1912 knew them instead as the Abors, which is supposedly an Assamese coining meaning `those who cannot be controlled'. This nicely encapsulates the opposition that lay behind the campaign for which this bar to the medal was awarded. The recipient of this piece was Subadar Jangbir Rana, of the 8th Gurkha Rifles. It is one of four medals that were awarded to him that are now in the Watson Collection; the others precede. The medals are not attached to each other, so although the Watson Collection catalogue considers them as Group 3, they have been treated separately here. All the same, it was as a group that Lester Watson purchased them from the dealer Gifford, in 1928. CM.1483-2009 1 accession number CM.1483-2009 141579 priref 141579 Watson Catalogue 156 ordering M-0368 previous object number LW.0361b uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141579 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141579 Bust of Victoria facing left obverse VICTORIA REGINA design Victory crowning seated Classical warrior with laurel wreath 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 1891 1891 1891 1891 1895 1 1895 1895 1895 mint reference agent-149658 adlib-agent-149658 4cb81521-c6ef-3826-8224-de2a104139c5 London artist reference agent-174941 adlib-agent-174941 8ba653dd-3bef-332c-a3cb-822cc499c1fd Wyon, William artist reference agent-147914 adlib-agent-147914 5137dfbe-da76-3132-b042-fd9281d2df44 Wyon, Leonard Charles ruler reference agent-151398 adlib-agent-151398 bb2cd0a1-0a27-3787-a684-475d3b199972 Victoria (1837-1901) with the title of ruler reference agent-174943 adlib-agent-174943 9c2be08c-ce74-3f9c-b796-3c936a5088e0 Victoria regina reference term-106216 adlib-term-106216 825b8379-ec94-388e-9a59-624e40c090d0 London reference term-39778 adlib-term-39778 8bd60ed6-968d-3faf-8ad5-b4e4ee9bb245 silver Diameter mm 36.3 Weight g 41.04 reference media-116709 adlib-media-116709 c939613e-566f-30e0-a0ac-415d79d5ca51 jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0361b_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 119 1742589842731 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0361b_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 119 1742589842731 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0361b_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 119 1742589842731 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0361b_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 119 1742589842731 1 image 0 media image reference media-116710 adlib-media-116710 1fde9655-2440-3cdb-acfc-1e0b2db0a1a4 jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0361b_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 130 1742589794535 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0361b_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 130 1742589794535 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0361b_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 130 1742589794535 1 image jpeg cm/cm15/LW_0361b_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 365 width pixels 130 1742589794535 1 image 1 media image reference term-122861 adlib-term-122861 ccd0a572-3f62-3236-9acc-b42761c05a9f Indian General Service Medal (1854-95) 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-107681 adlib-term-107681 e80da827-45c6-3b71-a3ef-28794a05e4a8 Britain 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 Gifford 1928 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 242-244, 259-260 reference publication-5886 adlib-publication-5886 a6056c29-399c-38dd-9710-5b3f2d44b8a6 British Battles and Medals 7th edn 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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