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Date
1935 – 1935
Material
metal
Catalogue Number
105.02.0015
Description
A silver coin stamped on one side with a pony express rider and the words “Oregon Trail Memorial Ass'n, Pony Express Diamond Jubilee, 1860-1935,” and with “Changing Ponies Relay Station” with two horses and three men on the reverse.
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Title
Commemorative Coin
Date
1935 – 1935
Material
metal
Dimensions
3.1 x 3.1 cm
Description
A silver coin stamped on one side with a pony express rider and the words “Oregon Trail Memorial Ass'n, Pony Express Diamond Jubilee, 1860-1935,” and with “Changing Ponies Relay Station” with two horses and three men on the reverse.
Subject
Fred Brewster
souvenirs
Pony Express
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
105.02.0015
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Date
1930 – 1950
Material
metal
Catalogue Number
105.02.0065
Description
A round brass coloured coin with the profile of man with long hair tied into club at neck (George Washington?) and marked “The Engineers Club of Philadelphia 1877” around the border in relief. The other side has a crossed olive branch and oak branch framing the edges with “The First American Engin…
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Title
Commemorative Coin
Date
1930 – 1950
Material
metal
Dimensions
0.3 x 3.5 x 3.5 cm
Description
A round brass coloured coin with the profile of man with long hair tied into club at neck (George Washington?) and marked “The Engineers Club of Philadelphia 1877” around the border in relief. The other side has a crossed olive branch and oak branch framing the edges with “The First American Engineer” at the bottom and “Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair” at the centre.
Subject
collectables
souvenirs
organizations, The Engineers Club of Philadelphia
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
105.02.0065
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Date
1938 – 1938
Material
metal
Catalogue Number
105.02.0071
Description
A large copper-coloured cast metal coin with a seated, bare bosomed, robed woman holding a torch and book before a frieze of toiling male figures with “Servir” beneath. On the other side there is a cogged wheel with “Rotary International,” and a band around the outside with “Rotaria Tridistrital …
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Title
Commemorative Coin
Date
1938 – 1938
Material
metal
Dimensions
0.2 x 4.1 x 4.1 cm
Description
A large copper-coloured cast metal coin with a seated, bare bosomed, robed woman holding a torch and book before a frieze of toiling male figures with “Servir” beneath. On the other side there is a cogged wheel with “Rotary International,” and a band around the outside with “Rotaria Tridistrital Marzo 1938 St. Go de Chile.”
Subject
souvenirs
organizations, Rotary International
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
105.02.0071
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Date
1930 – 1940
Material
wood
Catalogue Number
107.01.0086
Description
A seated buddha with his feet in a lotus position at the centre of a lotus blossom. His right hand rests palm up in his lap and the left is raised in a blessing (or teaching position). The carved figurine is wood with simple features, large ears, and draped robes. The figurine is painted a saffro…
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Title
Figurine
Date
1930 – 1940
Material
wood
Dimensions
12.7 x 6.0 x 7.0 cm
Description
A seated buddha with his feet in a lotus position at the centre of a lotus blossom. His right hand rests palm up in his lap and the left is raised in a blessing (or teaching position). The carved figurine is wood with simple features, large ears, and draped robes. The figurine is painted a saffron gold colour with red and black features and black hair with carved and red painted dot at front centre of hair. The figurine is loosely attached to a simply carved brown wood base of leaves curling downward with dowel through base of the buddha. There are Chinese letters on the base of the stand and “1.50” along with a paper sticker that reads “China:.
Subject
households
souvenirs
religious
Buddah
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
107.01.0086
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Date
1915 – 1930
Material
metal, bronze
Catalogue Number
107.02.0012
Description
A small cast bronze figurine of a running satyr-like man with arms and two fingers of each hand held up. The man has a bearded face with sharp features, curly hair, two small budding horns, and skullcap on the back of his head. The figurine is standing on a rectangular bronze base and has a very …
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Title
Figurine
Date
1915 – 1930
Material
metal, bronze
Dimensions
11.1 x 3.5 (base) x 4.2 (base) cm
Description
A small cast bronze figurine of a running satyr-like man with arms and two fingers of each hand held up. The man has a bearded face with sharp features, curly hair, two small budding horns, and skullcap on the back of his head. The figurine is standing on a rectangular bronze base and has a very dark patina.
Subject
households
decorative
crafts
sculpting
Philip Moore
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
107.02.0012
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Date
1930 – 1950
Material
wood; metal
Catalogue Number
107.02.0013
Description
An elongated tall thin simple figure carved from a single piece of wood which is half light and half dark. The figure has one hand at the waist holding a wooden spear through a hole drilled in its fist. The other hand is clasped at the chest holding the broken remains of another spear. The figur…
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Title
Figurine
Date
1930 – 1950
Material
wood; metal
Dimensions
37.5 x 4.5; 4.6 (base) x 5.5; 4.6 (base) cm
Description
An elongated tall thin simple figure carved from a single piece of wood which is half light and half dark. The figure has one hand at the waist holding a wooden spear through a hole drilled in its fist. The other hand is clasped at the chest holding the broken remains of another spear. The figure is wearing a short skirt,a tall flat headdress with three incised vertical grid-like bands and has large pierced earlobes and very simply carved facial features. There is a tall wire silver coloured collar that is wrapped around the figurine’s long neck. The figure is standing on a low circular base made of a different type of wood.
Subject
households
decorative
souvenirs
crafts
carving
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
107.02.0013
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Date
1915 – 1935
Material
bone?; wood
Catalogue Number
107.02.0015
Description
A relief carving on the surface of a hollow tube-shaped piece of bone(?). The carving is of a female figure with a large pierced fanned headdress and wings at her hips kneeling on the back of a large bird with sharp talons, beak, and large textured wings at either side. The carving is deeply inci…
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Title
Figurine
Date
1915 – 1935
Material
bone?; wood
Dimensions
20.7 x 4.0; 8.9 (base) x 4.5; 8.9 (base) cm
Description
A relief carving on the surface of a hollow tube-shaped piece of bone(?). The carving is of a female figure with a large pierced fanned headdress and wings at her hips kneeling on the back of a large bird with sharp talons, beak, and large textured wings at either side. The carving is deeply incised and pierced through to the hollow centre in places. The carving is attached to a stepped wooden base by fitting it over a shaped piece at the top and with one nail at the front and one nail at the back.
Subject
households
decorative
souvenirs
crafts
carving
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
107.02.0015
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Date
1930 – 1950
Material
metal
Catalogue Number
105.02.1091
Description
Mounted red coat "R.C.M.P. CANADA". A red-coated Mountie, with blue breeches sits astride a silver coloured horse. The horse stands on a green base on which is: "R.C.M.P. CANADA" on the back "H.W.N. Made in England".
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Title
Pin
Date
1930 – 1950
Material
metal
Dimensions
3.3 x 1.6 cm
Description
Mounted red coat "R.C.M.P. CANADA". A red-coated Mountie, with blue breeches sits astride a silver coloured horse. The horse stands on a green base on which is: "R.C.M.P. CANADA" on the back "H.W.N. Made in England".
Subject
souvenirs
R.C.M.P.
Credit
Purchased from Phyllis Cain, Banff, 1988
Catalogue Number
105.02.1091
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Date
1930 – 1950
Material
metal
Catalogue Number
105.02.0074
Description
A gold-coloured pressed relief metal pin in the shape of an oval belt reading “Cruft's Dog Show” around an intertwined monogram “SSC” at centre. There is a crown at the top (similar to military buttons #103.07.0060 c-g) of the pin. The reverse image of the impression can be seen on the back, and …
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Title
Pin
Date
1930 – 1950
Material
metal
Dimensions
0.8 x 2.6 x 5.8 cm
Description
A gold-coloured pressed relief metal pin in the shape of an oval belt reading “Cruft's Dog Show” around an intertwined monogram “SSC” at centre. There is a crown at the top (similar to military buttons #103.07.0060 c-g) of the pin. The reverse image of the impression can be seen on the back, and a hooked pin is soldered to the top of the crown.
Subject
animals, dog
insignia
souvenirs
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
105.02.0074
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