Catalogue Number
NMLH.1990.26
Object Name
Banner
Title
Tin Plate Workers Society. United to support but not combind to injure.
Place
Liverpool, England, UK
People
Tin Plate Workers Society
Date
1821-1826
Creator(s)Dixon, William
Description
This is the oldest banner in the museum's collection.
It is a fine piece of naive art. It features two allegorical figures of Hope and Justice, a bundle of sticks bound together to denote the strength of unity, a union jack and the all-seeing eye. The eye is a common symbol taken from the iconography of the free masons. The union jack indicates the loyal image that early trade unions wanted to project after a period of repression during the Napoleonic Wars.
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