TIFFANY & CO, NEW YORK, NY
ALBANY ACADEMY - INDEPENDENT COLLEGE PREPARATORY DAY SCHOOL FOR BOYS, ALBANY, NEW YORK (1813-2007 WHEN MERGED WITH ALBANY ACADEMY FOR GIRLS)
NINETEENTH CENTURY GOLD 22 KARAT (TEST MARK NEAR BAIL) AWARDED FOR BEST ENGLISH ESSAY
OBV: WITHIN CIRCLE ACADEMY BUILDING WITH TREE FOREGROUND LEFT; ENCIRCLING LEGEND " GANSEVOORT MEDAL" "THE BEST ENGLISH ESSAY, ALBANY ACADEMY."
REV: WITHIN CIRCLE LEGEND "AWARDED TO" (NEVER ENGRAVED); SURROUNDING LATIN LEGEND "PALMAM QUI MERUIT FERAT (LET HE WHO MERITS THE PALM POSSESS IT)"; SMALL CROSS AT BOTTOM WITH "TIFFANY & CO." BENEATH.
THE GANSEVOORT MEDAL AWARD IS NAMED FOR THE SON OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR HERO GENERAL PETER GANSEVOORT. GENERAL PETER GANSEVOORT WAS ALSO THE MATERNAL GRANDFATHER OF HERMAN MELVILLE, THE AUTHOR OF MOBY DICK.
MELVILLE'S UNCLE, PETER GANSEVOORT (THE MAN THE MEDAL IS NAMED FOR), WAS PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE ACADEMY. HERMAN MELVILLE ATTENDED ALBANY ACADEMY HIMSELF, AS DID HIS BROTHER (WHOSE FIRST NAME WAS GANSEVOORT), AS WELL AS THEIR COUSIN CAPTAIN HENRY STANFORD GANSEVOORT (BREVET UNION MAJOR GENERAL) WHO DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF IN THE CIVIL WAR.
MANY RESPECTED AMERICAN POLITICAL, GOVERNMENTAL, JUDICIAL, ACADEMIC, LITERARY AND MILITARY PERSONAGES GRADUATED FROM ALBANY ACADEMY, INCLUDING MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENT BRIGADIER GENERAL THEODORE ROOSEVELT, JR., ADMIRAL CHARLES D. SIGSBEE (WHO HAD BEEN CAPTAIN OF THE U.S.S. MAINE WHEN IT EXPLODED IN HAVANA HARBOR), AND JOURNALIST ANDY ROONEY (OF 60 MINUTES FAME).
CONTAINS 16.9 GRAMS OF .900 (22 KARAT) FINE GOLD (.4890 OZ AGW)
31 MM IN DIAMETER, HANGS 42 MM WITH BAIL
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