Medal - Best Superior Umbrella Mumbai, India
Features
| Location |
India
 |
|---|---|
| Type | Advertising medallions |
| Composition | Bronze |
| Weight | 3.28 g |
| Diameter | 22.5 mm |
| Thickness | 0.75 mm |
| Shape | Round (Ex mount) |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Number | N# 535629 |
Obverse
A central image of a Coppersmith Barbet (official bird of Mumbai), about to land on a fruited fig tree branch, surrounded by a beaded circle, the legend and another beaded circle.
Script: Latin
Lettering: MADE FOR✷FAZALBHOY PEEROO MAHOMED✷BOMBAY✷
Reverse
A central image of a Coppersmith Barbet (official bird of Mumbai), about to land on a fruited fig tree branch, surrounded by a beaded circle, the legend and another beaded circle.
Script: Latin
Lettering: ✷MADE IN JAPAN✷BEST SUPERIOR✷UMBRELLA
Edge
Reeded
Comments
Essentially a “store card” for umbrellas (Made in Japan) available through the Fazalbhoy “empire”.
Very few mentions currently, with the one exception being the reference to it in the “Castes & Tribes of Southern India” by Edgar Thurston (1909), shown below.
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Numista Rarity index: 97
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