| Description | Artist unknown, numbered '19' in pencil. Additional notes on the page state that the casket bears the coat of arms of the University of Birmingham on the back, in the same style as the city arms on the front. The plan includes a detail of sunk gilt panel for engraving. The casket was presented to Sydney Vernon (retiring Pro-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham) by Alderman Ann Marie Howes by the Alderman J.R. Balmer, Lord Mayor of Birmingham, on being granted the Freedom of the City of Birmingham on 16 April 1955 (For more information about the presentation, see B COL 78 Newspaper Cuttings: Birmingham Biography, Vol. 45, 1954-1955, pp. 213-19, kept on open shelves in Heritage Research Area, Floor 4, Library of Birmingham). |