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Medallic objects [object]

Hierarchical level:

Series

Date:

[ca. 1923-1987], 1999.

Reference:

R4616-1-9-E

Type of material:

Objects (including medals and pins)

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

188285

Context of this record:

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Dora de Pédery-Hunt fonds

Medallic objects
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Record information – Details
Series includes:

285 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

[ca. 1923-1987], 1999.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

231 casts plaster, plasticine, wax various dimensions.
152 medals gold, silver, bronze, copper various dimensions.
26 plaques bronze, plaster various dimensions.
1 pin.
1 pendant silver.

Language of material:

English
Accession:

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Dora de Pédery-Hunt collection [object]

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Dora de Pedery-Hunt Collection [object]

Dora de Pedery-Hunt Collection [object]

Dora de Pedery-Hunt Collection [object]

Dora de Pedery-Hunt Collection [object]

Dora de Pedery-Hunt Collection [object]

Dora de Pedery-Hunt Collection [object]

Dora de Pedery-Hunt Collection [object]

Dora de Pedery-Hunt Collection [object]

Dora de Pedery-Hunt Collection [object]

Dora de Pédery Hunt [multiple media]
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Series consists of medals, plaster and plasticine moulds and casts. The works were created for a variety of purposes with an emphasis on personal tributes, as arts and scholastic awards, and as commemorations from community and business associations. Medals consist of: portrait medal of Mary Wrinch Reid; medal depicting F. Goya; George Delisle portrait medal; Glenbow Museum Acquisitions Society medal; Haydn medal; Schubert medal; Handel medal; Beethoven medal; Bach medal; Kristina and Amerigo medal; Northern Telecom International Canadian Studies Award medal; medals from the Franklin Mint Series on Biblical Wildlife; Young Mozart medal; "Greetings" medal; Person's Case 50th Anniversary Award medal; Dora de Pédery-Hunt Self-Portrait medal; "Nellie's Nellie" medal; Metro International Caravan 10th Anniversary medal; Dora de Pédery-Hunt's 65th Birthday medal; Pauline M. McGibbon medal; Nellie McClung medal; Canadian Confederation medal; Dr. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi medal; Canadian Welcome medal; E. Cora Hind medal; George Faludy medal; Dr. Hans Selye medal; Remember Canada medal; Royal Ontario Museum medal; Nellie, the Hairdo medal; 1984 Papal Visit commemorative medal; 1987 Canadian Engineering Centennial medal; Centennial of Canadian Confederation medal; a specially cast specimen for the Public Archives of Canada of the Lester Pearson Peace Medal; portrait medals of Dr. J. Roby Kidd, Béla Bartok, Zoltan Kodaly, and Robertson Davies; medal depicting a seated nude male and female figure; Banff School of Fine Arts, Donald Cameron medal; Ontario Association of Architects, W. Gerald Raymore medal; Manufacturers Life Insurance Company, Sir John A. Macdonald prize medal; Family Law Memorial, Beverly E. Martin Genest award; Cooper & Lybrand Ontario Graduates Association, Kenneth Carter award; Hamilton Arts Award; National and Provincial Parks Association of Canada; J.B. Harkin medal; Markham District High School, H.G. Mingay award; Corporation professionnelle des urbanistes du Québec medal; Ontario Arts Council, Hon. Pauline McGibbon award; Ontario Credit Union Distinguished Service award; University of Toronto Devonshire House, Dean Symons medal; Trent University, President Symons medal; Association of Commonwealth Universities Symons award; Cansave Children Award; Lakefield College School, Ondaatje House award; Humber College President's Medal; John L. Wright Medal; Humanities Research Council of Canada Medal; Zonta Club of Toronto Outstanding Adventurer Award; YMCA Fellowship of Honour Medal; Family Service Association of Metropolitan Toronto award; Academy of Medicine, Dr. William Boyd medal; Graham Gore medal; Josephus Molnar medal; Junior League of Toronto 50th medal; Children's Aid Society for Foster Parents medal; Toronto Mendelssohn Choir 75th medal; First International Congress of Child Neurology medal; Minotaur Gallery First International Exhibition of Medals in Canada medal; National Arts Centre medal; Regis College, Canadian Religious Art Today Exhibition medal; Hungarian Helicon Society Exiles in Gratitude to Canada medal; Dora de Pédery-Hunt Self-Portrait II medal; Children's Aid Society Volunteers' Emblem medal; Welcome to Canada, Canada Confederation 100th medal; Welcome to Alberta medal; Year of the Child: Let Us Grow medal; Year of the Child: Aimez-Moi, Protégez medal; Montreal Expo '67 medal; Pierre Elliott Trudeau medal; Erasmus Rotterdamus medal; Lawrence of Arabia medal; 700th Birth of Dante medal; Dante Meets Beatrice medal; Mother Teresa medal; Cardinal Mindszenty medal; William Shakespeare medal; Homage to Edvard Munch medal; The Last Supper medal; Chinese Horse medal; Save the Whales medal; Wedding Medal for G and I; Charles and Helen Band Golden Wedding Anniversary medal; Wedding Medal for Helen and Donald Scroggie; Natus Est medal; Baptismal Medal of Emily Hencz; Baptismal Medal of John Simon Tooke; Poland's Millennium of Christianity medal; Pearl McCarthy Scholarship medal; and 19 other medals acquired by Dora de Pédery-Hunt.

Series consists of plaques of the Biblical Wildlife Plaque series; portrait plaque of Celia Franca; portrait plaque of Louis Braille.

Series consists of two pins, one a commemorative pin of the opening of Roy Thompson Hall.

Finding aid:

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(Electronic) Works have been item-level catalogued in the Minisis-ICON database. (90: Open)

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Related material:

Please see the Honours series of the Celia Franca fonds (R4209, Mikan no. 3804727) for the medallic objects related to the plaster casts and designs in this series.

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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121-080249-X
121-080253-8
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121-080260-0
121-080262-7
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1970-029 MED
1971-021 MED
1972-022 MED
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1974-013 MED
1974-027 MED
1974-046 MED
1974-048 MED
1975-047 MED
1976-059 MED
1976-060 MED
1978-030 MED
1979-006 MED
1980-023 MED
1981-015 MED
1981-025 MED
1982-007 MED
1982-039 MED
1983-003 MED
1984-003 MED
1984-010 MED
1984-016 MED
1985-027 MED
1987-099 PIC
1992-382 DAP
1993-413 X DAP
1993-427 X DAP
1993-428 X DAP
1993-434 X DAP
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Object

[Consultation90 Open]

Medals

[Consultation 90 Open]

13759--13760;

[Consultation 90 Open]

14196--14198;

[Consultation 90 Open]

14201;

[Consultation 90 Open]

14225;

[Consultation 90 Open]

Volume [R4616] 43

[Consultation 99 Closed pending processing]

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Various copyrights. In most cases, as with the original plasters and wax models, copyright rests with the artist, but for a large number of the completed medals, copyright rests with the commissioning body, as with, for example, the federal or provincial governments.

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