Lot Archive

Lot

№ 2147

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1 July 2008

Estimate: £60–£80

19th Century, Royal Society of Arts, 1863, a silver award medal by L.C. Wyon, bust of the Prince of Wales right, rev. legend in and around wreath, edge named (G.T. Robinson, FSA, for his paper on ‘Decorative Plaster Work: Modelled Stucco Work’, Session 1890-91), 56mm (BHM 2794; E 1567). Virtually as struck and most attractively toned (£60-80)

G.T. Robinson, an architect with practices in Leamington Spa and Wolverhampton, designed the latter’s public baths and Exchange building, built between 1850 and 1853, Bolton Market Hall, erected in 1855, and the old town hall at Burslem, opened in 1857, among other works