Record

Title	Documentation of The Lord Mayor's Stow Prize ceremony
Repository	Harrow Museum Collection
Ref No	HMC/S/1/1987:190.3
ObjectNumber	1987:190.3
Date	1939
Description	Documentation of the ceremony: Order of Service sheet for the Stow Commenoration Service, 24 April, 1939, inside card cover. Pasted inside front cover, monochrome photograph of Lord Mayor presenting the prize to Margaret Bowles, with the Rector apparently holding item 1987:190.2 and the statue of John Stow behind, holding the new quill pen. Pasted inside rear cover, a newspaper cutting describing the event.
Provenance	Donated by Lowlands College, 1987.
Comments	A marble monument to John Stow (1524-1605), writer of the "Survey of London", erected in St Andrew Undershaft, holds a real quill pen. Since at least 1828, a 'renewal' ceremony replaces the quill periodically. Although the ceremony has lapsed several times, it continues to be held today, jointly sponsored by the Merchant Taylors' Company and the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, the latter of which supplies the quill. The ceremony is presided over by the Lord Mayor of London or the Master Merchant Taylor.
Object Name	Document
Materials	Paper
AssociatedObjectNumber	1987:190:1-2
Location	In Storage

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