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Ann Arbor High School Centennial Medal
Designed by: Avard Fairbanks (American, 1897–1987)
Designed and engraved by: Ralph J. Menconi (American, 1915–1972)
Struck by: Medallic Art Company (1900–1990)
Designed and engraved by: Ralph J. Menconi (American, 1915–1972)
Struck by: Medallic Art Company (1900–1990)
1956
Object Place: United States
Medium/Technique
Bronze
Dimensions
Diameter and weight: 64 mm, 126.6 gm (2 1/2 in., 4.47 oz.)
Credit Line
Gift of Cornelius C. Vermeule III
Accession Number2005.1160
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsContemporary Art, Americas
ClassificationsNumismatics – Medals
DescriptionObv: A wagon with an ox team being pulled along a rocky bluff inscribed: THE / PIONEERS / with an ox skull at the base and signed © 19[??] / AVARD FAIRBANKS.
Rev: ANN ARBOR HIGH SCHOOL / 1856 - 100 YEARS OF PROGRESS - 1956 around a moden and a historic view of the school, signed RJM at right, the whole surrounded by a plain raised rim.
Edge: plain.
Rev: ANN ARBOR HIGH SCHOOL / 1856 - 100 YEARS OF PROGRESS - 1956 around a moden and a historic view of the school, signed RJM at right, the whole surrounded by a plain raised rim.
Edge: plain.
ProvenanceSold Collectors Auctions Limited, Danbury, CT, September 7, 1990, Sale 35, lot 109, to Cornelius C. Vermeule, III; to MFA, 2005.
CopyrightReproduced with permission.