- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Badge for a Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) awarded to Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer in 1916.
- Long description
- Badge for a Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) awarded to Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer in 1916. The badge is in the shape of a star and is made from silver, silver gilt metal and enamel with a gold retaining pin on the back. The central design is a cross with four red enamelled arms. In the centre is an enamelled image of St Michael the archangel trampling over and subduing Satan in battle 'Auspicium Melioris AEVI' ('Token of a better Age').
- Geographical reference
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1916
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 14/10/2014
- Materials and processes
- Material Gilt Metal, Material Enamel, Material Ribbon Textile, Material Silk Textile Animal, Process Woven, Process Struck, Process Inscribed, Process Enamelled, Process Dyed
- Dimensions
- Width: max 80 mm, Length: max 85 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 2014.94.1.2
- Research and responses
Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer was awarded CMG in 1904, Fellow of the Royal Society in 1900 and KCMG in 1916. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/spencer-sir-walter-baldwin-8606 [FB 22/9/2016]
2014.94.1.2
Badge for a Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) awarded to Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer in 1916.
2014.94.1.2
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