Token - Wanganui Cosmopolitan Club Life Member ND

Reverse

Engraved with Members name

Script: Latin

Lettering: SILVER

Edge

Plain

Comment

Both silver and Gold examples exist

NEW ZEALAND NUMISMATIC JOURNAL Vol. 15 No. 1 (58) June, 1979. D. R. Kidd

Life Members' Medal: 

During May, 1908 the Cosmopolitan Club General Committee resolved to award a suitable ticket or medal to members who had been fully paid-up for fifteen years. A leather pocket badge costing 3/3d was selected but any qualified member could choose a more expensive silver medal by paying the difference.

As this amounted to about 8/- and was a very considerable proportion of the then average weekly pay packet, few life members availed themselves of the opportunity.

It is likely that fewer than 100 silver life medals were ever purchased. Over the years many of these must have been lost so that today they are relatively uncommon.

Although the Life Membership Committee recommended that gold medals could be purchased, there is no record that any member actually took advantage of this expensive offer. (Have been sighted at auction) 

The medals are approximately the same size as the club tokens.

Obverse: COSMOPOLITAN CLUB LIFE MEMBER

Reverse: Blank except for the stamped word 'silver' in small type and the member's name engraved across the centre. The medal mountings were designed to be attached to the vest pocket watch chains then in fashion. During the 1930s the issuing of life members medals was discontinued. Today very few active members own these medals.

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