NAM.1982-05-95-1

Fencing medal awarded by the Scottish Naval and Military Academy to James C Scott, 1837. Silver. Suspended upon a swivelling suspender, through which passes a blue corded silk ribbon with crimson borders. Fastened to the ribbon by means of a hinge and clip is a silver clasp with hinged reverse. Ribbon suspended from a bar bearing a vertical hook on the reverse. Obverse: Within a raised rim and a horizontally milled raised border, in relief on a burnished ground, a central star similar to that of the Order of the Thistle, upon which a frosted circlet, within which a lion rampant within a double tressure flory counter-flory upon a spotted ground (possibly representing gold, since this charge forms part of the Arms of Scotland). Reverse: Within a raised rim and a horizontally milled raised border, a burnished scroll above twin sprays of laurel.