Item Bonomi MSS 45.116 - Design for Tyne Sailors' Home medal and chain

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Design for Tyne Sailors' Home medal and chain:

• ink sketch on paper
• loose
• 11.5 x 17.7 cm
• [on sketch] 'TYNE / SAILORS / HOME' (ink note)
• [on sketch] 'Iron ship cable is / always formed with a / Cast iron Stud to prevent / the larger link from / collapsing when strained / thus' (ink note)
• [on sketch] 'Stud.' (ink note)
• [on sketch] 'Newcastle / a tower / antique / Emblem / of a City' (ink note)
• [on sketch] 'Arms of / N. Shields not / known / antique city Embm' (ink note)
• [on sketch] 'South / Shields / not / known' (ink note)
• [on sketch] 'Gateshead / Goat's-head / thus.' (ink note)
• [on sketch] 'The arms of these two / towns may be had of the / magistrates clerk / who will give and impression / of the Seal on / application' (ink note)

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