Medal - "A Tree for Me"

Features

Location	United Kingdom
Queen	Elizabeth II (1952-2022)
Type	Art medals
Year	1985
Composition	Tombac
Weight	53.4 g
Diameter	48 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Cast
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Number	N# 569064
References	Attwood BAM# 33 Philip Attwood; 2002. British Art Medals: 1982 - 2002. British Art Medal Society, London, United Kingdom.

Commemorative issue

British Art Medal Society

Obverse

Man pushing a wheelbarrow to the right in which is an ancient tree, watched by a serpent

Engraver: Ronald Pennell

Reverse

Three dead trees in a barren landscape

Script: Latin

Lettering:
1985
RP

Engraver: Ronald Pennell

Edge

Plain

Comments

Obverse: engraved on a glass lens, from which moulds were taken and a medal cast in silver.

Reverse: carved on the silver medal which then served as a master from which moulds were taken for the broze examples.

About this medal the artist wrote:

A tree for me shows a man wheeling away the last ancient tree in a wheelbarrow perhaps for preservation in a museum! The serpent, with all it represents in mythology and christianity, observes all. On the reverse, three dead trees in a barren landscape. I am an optimist, but everyone alive today must think from time to time - where, when and how will it all end?

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
1985

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