• Title
  Item 0022: Ricketty Dick, 1873 [bronze medal]
• Call number
  SAFE/DN/M 22
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1873
• Type of material
  Medals
• Reference code
  446671
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 medal - bronze - diameter 22 mm
  
• Scope and Content
  Obverse: Ricketty Dick 1873
  Reverse: Struck at the Exhibition Mint
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment - Due to security reasons this collection is not available for browsing
• Copying Conditions
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Numismatic and Philatelic Lists
• General note
  
  Forms part of Series 03 Part 01: Sir William Dixson medal collection : Australia : commemorative medals.
  
  "The Aboriginal whose head is depicted on this medal and others struck, both in Australia and overseas in the later part of the 19th century, was known as Ricketty Dick. This Australian native was born about 1798 and died in June 1863. He was well known to people who travelled along the New South Head Road on their way to Watsons Bay. He camped on a dry patch of ground in the swamps of Rose Bay ... In his later years ... was looked after by W.C. Wentworth." -- Quoted from: Australian commemorative medals and medalets from 1788 / L.J. Carlisle. Sydney : B & C Press, 1983, p.13.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823694
  Australia, Medalets.
  
  Ricketty Dick. Bronze Gilded. 1873.
  Carlisle 1873/2.
  SAFE/DN/M 22 - Condition Good. MD 228
• Conservation note
  
  One medal held (SAFE/DN/M 22)
• Name
  Ricketty Dick, d. 1863
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  commemorative ware
  medals
  

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