A short snippet from the museum’s collection: A Flax Improvement Society Silver Medal, 1849
A silver award medal to R. Neill, Belfast, and engraved “In Commemoration of the Visit of Her Majesty Queen Victoria & H.R.H. Prince Albert to the Exhibition of Flax & Linen Fabrics in the Linen Hall, Belfast, on the 11th Augt. 1849”.
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