• Title
  [Medal] Presented as a mark of esteem to C. De Boos, J.P., Gold Fields Warden from Chinese Miners in the district of Braidwood, 1881
• Creator
  Charles De Boos, 1818-1900
• Call number
  SAFE/R 257
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1881
• Type of material
  Medals, Clippings
• Reference code
  446263
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Objects - 1 gold medal attached to silk ribbon, inside velvet-lined wooden box - medal 5 cm. (diam.), box 15.3 x 9.5 x 2.5 cm. (closed)
  Clippings
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  'In 1874 [De Boos] was appointed a police magistrate and mining warden...The Chinamen in the Braidwood district subscribed a piece of gold each, from which was designed and presented to him, a Chinese medal. Armed with this "passport" it would have been possible for him to have travelled all over China without molestation.'
  
  Reference:
  Newspaper obituary for Charles De Boos, 30 October, 1900 (accompanying medal).
• Scope and Content
  Medal accompanied by newscuttings relating to the life and death of Charles De Boos.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  On reverse of medal, the three columns of Chinese script read from right to left:
  
  First line: Qing guan min le
  [Since you are] such a “Qing guan” (honest and upright official) people are happy
  
  Second line: Zai Buliehuo
  In Braidwood
  
  Third line: Tangren jingsong
  Present to you by the Chinese with high respect
  
  Reference:
  Translated by Dr Tana Li, Director, Centre for the Study of the Southern Chinese Diaspora, School of Culture, History and Language, CAP, the Australian National University, February 2014.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823457
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled from obverse of medal. Reverse is inscribed in Chinese characters.
• Name
  De Boos, Charles, 1818-1900
  
• Topic
  Chinese characters
  Chinese peoples
  magistrates
  medals
  miners
  presentation pieces
  
• Place
  Braidwood (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Learning Services Program display 2014-2015 - State Library of New South Wales (1 January, 2014 - 1 January, 2015)
  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)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE10464836

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