Coin, commemorative
https://archives.westvancouver.ca/link/historicalartifact2149
- Artist / Maker
- Crane Co.
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1930
- Description
- a) Bronze coin with portrait of a man on the front with beer. Text along the top edge and surrounding portrait. Backside show aerial cityscape of Chicago with sash on top reading: “1930” and an image of a house.
- Repository
- West Vancouver Art Museum
- Artist / Maker
- Crane Co.
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Accession Number
- 2005.012.356.a-d
- Date Range From
- 1930
- Origin - Country
- U.S.A.
- Origin - Province / Territory
- New York
- Origin - Municipality
- New York
- Use - Country
- Canada
- Use - Province / Territory
- British Columbia
- Use - Municipality
- West Vancouver
- Subject Access
- Anniversaries
- Artifact Category
- Communication Artifacts: Documentary Artifact
- Description
- a) Bronze coin with portrait of a man on the front with beer. Text along the top edge and surrounding portrait. Backside show aerial cityscape of Chicago with sash on top reading: “1930” and an image of a house.
- b) Cream coloured box with textured exterior with soft cotton interior and a sheet of acid free paper.
- c) Box lid in cream coloured textured exterior. Text in black on the centre of the underside.
- d) Card describes the coin on one side with handwritten note on the other side.
- Width
- b)6.7
- c)7
- d)5.7
- Length
- b)6.7
- c)7
- d)5.7
- Outside Diameter
- a)6.2
- Units
- cm
- Material
- Paper, bronze, cotton, ink.
- Colour
- Cream, white, bronze, black.
- Marks / Labels
- a) Front: “1855
- SEVENTY
- FIFTH
- ANNIVERSARY
- 1930/CRANE/CO./R.T.CRANE/FOUNDER”. Back:“1930/CHICAGO/JULY/FOURTH/1855”.
- b) c) Underside:“MEDALLIC ART CO./NEW YORK”.
- d) Text on both sides handwritten and printed.
- Repository
- West Vancouver Art Museum