IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 141584 accession number: CM.1488-2009 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Saturday 22 January 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Although this medal was awarded by the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Co. of Massachusetts, it relates more to the organisation to which it was awarded, the Honourable Artillery Co. of London, which is more fully described elsewhere. The Massachusetts Company was formed after the emigration of a number of the HAC's members to America in the 1620s and 1630s, but relations became distant soon afterwards, and after the Anglo-American `War of 1812' were broken off completely. Only in 1851, when members of the AHAC visited the Great Exhibition in London, were the two branches renewed in contact, and thereafter a slow exchange of visits began. In 1903 the London branch crossed the Atlantic to meet their American fellows, and this medal was created for the occasion. This example was awarded to Sergeant Trumpeter W. J. Waterlow, a stalwart member of the HAC and its veteran association the Old Gunners' Club. It is one of three of his medals that are now in the Watson Collection; the others follow. The medals are not attached to each other so although the Watson Collection catalogue considers them as Group 5 they have been treated separately here. Nonetheless, it was as a group that Lester Watson purchased them at some point before 1928; they had all previously formed part of the Payne Collection. title: Medal for Visit of the Honourable Artillery Company of London 1903 NOTES ----- type: history note value: Gift of L. Hoyt Watson; ex Lester Watson Collection, bt before 1928. Ex A. A. Payne Coll. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Coins and Medals collection: Lester Watson Collection creditline: Given by Lester Watson through Cambridge in America, 2009 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141584 TECHNIQUES ---------- struck CATEGORIES ------ category: medal DATING ------ creation date: 1903 - 1903 creation date earliest: 1903 creation date latest: 1903 CREATORS -------- maker: London maker: Ancient & Honourable Artillery Company of Massachusetts maker: Honourable Artillery Company of London DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: mm value: 38 dimension: Weight units: g value: 40.98 CITATIONS -------- Handbook of British and Foreign Orders, War Medals and Decorations Awarded to the Ar British and other Campaign and Gallantry Medals From the Collection of Lester Watson (d. 1959) --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0363a_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 194 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0363a_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 194 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0363a_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 194 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0363a_281_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 194 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0363a_282_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 194 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0363a_282_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 194 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0363a_282_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 194 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/cm/cm15/LW_0363a_282_29.jpg height: 365 pixels width: 194 pixels