{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O21578"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O21578/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2025PH2462/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2025PH2462/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"low","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2025PH2462","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":null},"record":{"systemNumber":"O21578","accessionNumber":"B.291-1999","objectType":"Certificate","titles":[],"summaryDescription":"","physicalDescription":"Rectangular certificate of landscape proportions with a green and gold border, printed in gold and shades of green on ivory-coloured card, and inscribed in ink.  It shows two children in pale blue swimsuits, one standing and the other diving, a mermaid, and fronds of seweed.  A rectangular cartouche contains the wording (with the exception of the name of the awarding association, which is at the top), and the badge of the L.S.S.A. in green within a cockle shell at the base.","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"London Schools Swimming Association","id":"A2933"},"association":{"text":"commissioners","id":"AAT25446"},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"card","id":"x30344"}],"techniques":[{"text":"printing","id":"AAT53319"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Printed card","categories":[{"text":"Children & Childhood","id":"THES48980"},{"text":"Education & Learning","id":"THES252542"},{"text":"Sport","id":"THES48893"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"YVA","id":"THES48593"},"images":["2025PH2462"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"006","id":"THES324062"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Certificate","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"England","id":"x28826"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1936","earliest":"1936-01-01","latest":"1936-12-31"},"association":{"text":"inscribed","id":"x29565"},"note":""},{"date":{"text":"ca.1930","earliest":"1925-01-01","latest":"1934-12-31"},"association":{"text":"printed","id":"AAT53319"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Alice Elby (subsequently deceased)","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"24.1","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"30.4","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"H R W/  1930","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"printing ink","method":"printing","position":"obverse","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"Signature","note":"Signature; obverse; printing; printing ink"},{"content":"LONDON SCHOOLS' SWIMMING/ ASSOCIATION/ BOW BRANCH/ (100 YARDS/ CERTIFICATE.OF.THE/ FIRST.CLASS/ .GRANTED.TO./ Lily Elby/ THIS 14th. DAY OF Oct.1936/ Chas.G.W.August/ Hon. Sec.","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"printing ink (annotated)","method":"printing","position":"obverse","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"Distributor's identification","note":"Distributor's identification; obverse; printing; printing ink (annotated)"}],"objectHistory":"Awarded to the donor's sister-in-law, Lilian/ Lily Elby, born c.1924-26","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Certificate for swimming awarded by the London Schools Swimming Association; England, 1936","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"Reason For Production: Commemorative","productionType":{"text":"Mass produced","id":"THES48863"},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"children (people by age group)","id":"AAT25945"},{"text":"mermaid","id":"x30066"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["B.291-1999"],"accessionNumberNum":"291","accessionNumberPrefix":"B","accessionYear":1999,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-08-26","recordCreationDate":"2000-02-01","availableToBook":false}}