IDENTIFIERS
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id:	141601
accession number:	CM.1504-2009

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 15 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
title:	Badge of the Order of the Medjidie, 5th Class

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Gift of L. Hoyt Watson; ex Lester Watson Collection. bt Seaby 1929. Left to James Fyler (nephew) on recipient's death 1873.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Coins and Medals
collection:	Lester Watson Collection
creditline: Given by Lester Watson through Cambridge in America, 2009

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141601





TECHNIQUES
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struck

CATEGORIES
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category: medal

DATING
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creation date:	1852 - 1861
creation date earliest:	1852
creation date latest:	1861

CREATORS
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maker: ‘Abd al-Majid (1823-61)
maker: Ottoman Empire

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: mm
value: 48.3

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 36.61



CITATIONS
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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)
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