• Title
  Naval coat or sash badge, belonging to Matthew Flinders
• Call number
  SAFE/R 146
  Status: On display. Objects Gallery. Case 3, Shelf 60
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  ca. 1812
• Type of material
  Badges
• Reference code
  413465
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Objects - 1 brass oval badge, slightly doomed with a relief design of anchor and cable, surmounted by crown - 8 x 6.5 cm
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
• General note
  
  This coat or sash badge appears to date from after 1812, when the Royal Navy introduced a new button design, which incorporated a crown above the traditional cable and anchor : see Dudley Jarrett "British Naval Dress" 1960, p. 65
  Digital order no:Album ID : 825778
• Topic
  badges
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Matthew Flinders : The Ultimate Voyage - State Library of New South Wales
  Landmarks: People and Places across Australia - National Museum of Australia (May, 2011 - May, 2014)
  Artefact or Fiction: Curriculum highlights, 20 April 2018 to 19 April 2019 - State Library of New South Wales (April, 2018 - April, 2019)
  Artefact or Fiction: Curriculum highlights, 18 April 2019 to 20 April 2020 - State Library of New South Wales (April, 2019 - April, 2020)

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