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Jewel & Medal Collection - Worcestershire Museum of Freemasonry
Silver Medal: Death of Bro. Frederic Otto Bohmann. 1768
Date:- 1768 - Classification:- Person; Death
Country of Origin:- Sweden -
Order:- Craft (& Freemasonry General)
Description
Struck to commemorate a donation by Bohman, of about £6000, to the Orphan Asylum in Stockholm, founded in 1753, on the birth of Princess Sophia Albertina, daughter of Adolphus Frederick (See No. 97). Merzdorf had not seen the piece, which he says was struck by the Grand Land Lodge of Sweden. His description has several errors. Scarce.
OBVERSE.—Clothed bust of Bohman to right. Legend, “Fred. Otto Bohman Grosshandl. J. Stockholm (Frederick Otto Bohman, Wholesale Merchant, Stockholm).
REVERSE.—Inscription in seven lines, “Are Penning For Ogemen Frikostighet Pa Warnlosa Barn Af Et Taeksamt Frimnrar Barnhus Slagen 1768” (Medal of henonr for liberality to poor and unprotected orphan children. Struck by the grateful Asylum for Orphans of Freemasons, 1768).
Properties
35 mm. Silver
