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Queen Victoria’s Jubilee badge

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State occasions such as coronations, jubilees, weddings and funerals often prompt enormous public interest and the sale of associated memorabilia. This badge was manufactured for Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897. It offers the chance to investigate a famous person and the reasons they have become famous and also to explore the media through which we get to know about public personalities.


From

United Kingdom


Date

AD 1897


Culture

Victorian Britain


Material

aluminium, paper and plastic


Dimensions

diameter: 2.3 cm


Museum

British Museum

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