Company Treasures
Browse the extensive collection of Shipwrights' treasures collected over the years.
Browse the extensive collection of Shipwrights' treasures collected over the years.
Formerly held by Mrs.Grace.Neary, wife of Albert Neary, Liveryman.
On one side are the Company Arms (showing that the medal was made after 1920); on the other is inscribed :
Mrs Grace Neary
Several other examples of this medal are known to exist but this is the only known lady’s version. Precisely when and why they were awarded, sometime between the two world wars, has not been determined.
Presented 1993 by Jack E. Neary, Prime Warden 1984-1985, in memory of his mother, Mrs Grace Neary. It was Mr Neary’s intention that this medal should be framed together with his father’s medal (372/1993) and his own Past Prime Warden’s badge and family freedom certificates
Diameter 1 ¼ ins. Lady’s version, on a brooch pin, with short, narrow red ribbons with narrow, wide, narrow stripes. Made by Messrs J.R. Gaunt,London.
(373/1993)
