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GUSN-36014
Dark purple ribbon with a gold printed medal and lettering. One pink rosette on the top (with a silver wire button in the middle) and silver wire fringes on the bottom.
ribbon (material)
ribbon (material)
wire
Commemorative
Ribbon, Commemorative
Ribbon, Commemorative
Printed in gold lettering on the front side of the ribbon, "City of Boston/Music/July 4, 1884/Committee". Printed around the gold medal, "Sicut patribus sit deus nobis. Civitatis regimine donate A.D. 1822". Printed in the middle of the medal, "Bostonia condita A.D. 1630". (Weaving, sewing)
Unknown
10 5/16 x 2 1/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Miss Caroline A. Leighton
1933.1215
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