General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Sterling silver

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

8.5 cm

Width

5.7 cm

Height

N/A

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Fisheries

Category

Miscellaneous

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Rosenthal

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

City

Unknown

Context

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

Period

Unknown

Canada

As per acquisition proposal "The International Fisheries Exhibition opened in London in May of 1883 and ran for six months. It was Canada’s first exhibit at an international fisheries exhibition, which were first mounted in Europe in the 1860s. Federal fish-culture superintendent Samuel Wilmot was appointed to organize the display, amassing 500 tons of objects that filled a 10,000 square-foot exhibit space in South Kensington. Objects included mounted fish, full-size boats and canoes, fishing gear, fish commodities, and an assortment of models and dioramas. Fish culture featured prominently in this exhibit. Visitors entering it immediately encountered a working model of Wilmot’s fish-hatching apparatus that contained 50,000 live Atlantic salmon eggs. Beside it stood Wilmot’s patented “Self-Picking and Self-Cleaning Canadian Fish Egg Incubator;” on the wall behind this display there hung a painting by Edward Scrope Shrapnel of the Newcastle hatchery, the first full-scale Atlantic salmon hatchery in North America that was located on Wilmot’s property near Newcastle, ON. If visitors missed the point, there was also a scale model of the “Reception House,” a structure located on Wilmot Creek—a Lake Ontario tributary—where migrating salmon were captured for hatchery purposes. The display won the exhibition’s gold medal for fish culture, one of the 31 noted on the medal under consideration here.".

Function

Medal commemorates Canada’s outstanding performance at the “Great International Fisheries Exhibition” held in London, UK, in 1883.

Technical

As per acquisition proposal "Medals commemorate battles, coronations, and other events of national significance. This medal is unusual in that it commemorates the previous award of other medals to Canada at the International Fisheries Exhibition in London in 1883.".

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

Print reads "CANADA/ WAS AWARDED 65 MEDALS/ (31 Gold 28 Silver & 6 Bronze)/ AT THE/ INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES EXHIBITION,/ LONDON 1883./ FOR THE EXCELLENCE OF THE/ CANADIAN FISHERIES EXHIBIT./ four of these Medals/ are Placed here by/ Sir Louis H. Davies, K.C.M.G. & c./ Minister of Marine & Fisheries/ June 1900.". Coat of arms reads "HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE/ DIEU ET MON DROIT". Engraved on lower edge "ROSENTHAL/ STERLING". Engraved on back "STERLING".

Missing

Appears complete

Finish

Sterling silver with engraved print and an enamel-inlay coat of arms. Coat of arms has blue, red, white and yellow background with gold print.

Decoration

N/A