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Description: | The badge of Liberian Order of African Redemption is a double sided pendant badge, in silver gilt and enamel. The badge is made up of a five pointed star, in white enamel. Each of the points terminates in a silver gilt ball and between each point are gilt metal rays. On the obverse in the centre of the star ther is a copper roundel with two applied silver figures with broken chains at their feet, kneeling at the base of a cross bearing the letters 'INRI' (Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum ? ?Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews?). This is surrounded by a metal wreath of laurels and berries with traces of green and red enamel, most of which is gone. On the reverse are the Liberian arms in coloured enamel; a ship in full sail with the sun on the horizon to the left; and to the right, a plough and palm tree form the foreground. This is encircled with a champleve frame of blue enamel with the gilt metal letters, 'THE LOVE OF LIBERTY BROUGHT US HERE'.
Liberia was founded in 1822 by free slaves sent by the American Colonization Society, it was declared independent in 1847.
The order was founded on 13 January 1879 and known as the Order of African Liberation. The name was changed in 1897 to the Order of African Redemption.
caption: Order of African Redemption | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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