2-979-759 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Badge and Chain of the Mayor of Hull, 1857. '...Mr. Anthony Bannister, on his serving the office a second time as Mayor of Hull in 1856, presented the Corporation with a badge which could either he appended to the chain or worn separately. The late Mayor, Mr. William Henry Moss, also, on his retiring from office...restored the chain to the Corporation very considerably enlarged, and ornamented by the addition of a fourth circle of links, two shoulder bosses, and a centre shield...with the Badge appended. The following is a copy of the inscription engraved on the back of the shield: This Chain, by permission of the Council, was altered and enlarged, and the centre shield, with the shoulder bosses, added to it, by and at the expense of WIliiam Henry Moss, Mayor of Kingston-upon-Hull, at the close of his Mayoralty, November, 1857. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.