Artwork Details
- Title
- Winchester Repeating Arms Company Medal (obverse)
- Artist
- Date
- ca. 1925-1935
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 4 3⁄8 in. (11.0 cm) diam.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Anthony de Francisci
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- gold plated white metal
- Classifications
- Keywords
- Portrait male — Winchester, O. F. — bust
- Object Number
- 1966.51.89
Artwork Description
The New Haven-based Winchester Repeating Arms Company manufactured rifles in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, supplying the “repeating rifle” popular on the western frontier as well as armaments for World War I. The obverse of Anthony de Francisci’s artist’s strike, or sample, depicts Oliver Winchester (1810-1880), founder of the company.