Buckinghamshire, Royal Horticultural Society, Banksian Medal, in bronze, after W. Wyon, bust of Sir Joseph Banks right, rev. legend, engraved (Awarded by the Chalfonts Gardeners’ Society to Mrs. E. Boyd-Carpenter, Gdnr. Mr. S. Hodgins, 1952), 38mm (BHM 1041; E 1138; MJP p.154); Denham Bowls Club, brass enamel badges (2), one by H.W. Miller Ltd, 24 x 20mm, other for the Club’s Jubilee, 1972, 28 x 27mm; Royal Horticultural Society, Banksian Medal, in bronze, after W. Wyon, engraved (Awarded by Gerrards Cross Horticultural Soc. 1975), 38mm (BHM 1041; E 1138; MJP p.154); Gerrards Cross Bowls Club, a blue enamel badge by H.W. Miller Ltd, Birmingham, 26 x 22mm; Gerrards Cross Twinned with Crepy-en-Valois, Antoing and Zell-Mosel, 1958, a rectangular brass badge, 31 x 25mm; Iver Heath Bowls Club, brass enamel badges by H.W. Miller Ltd (2), both 34 x 28mm; Bucks County Bowls Association, brass enamel badges (4), by H.W. Miller Ltd (3), all 29mm, and unsigned, 27mm; Bucks County Bowls Association, brass enamel Tourists badges (2), by H.W. Miller Ltd, with and without Birmingham street name, both 28 x 24mm; Bucks County Bowls Association, Golden Jubilee, 1960, brass enamel badges (2), by H.W. Miller Ltd, both 28 x 23mm; Bucks County Womens’ Bowling Association, brass enamel badge by H.W. Miller Ltd, 22 x 17mm; Bucks County Womens’ Bowling Association, brass enamel Tourists badge by H.W. Miller Ltd, 25 x 18mm; The Berks & Bucks Womens’ County Bowling Association, brass enamel badge by F. Saxby, Buckingham, 26mm; Buckinghamshire College, Faculty of Health Studies, a plated alloy enamel badge by Insignia Ltd, London, 33 x 26mm; Buckinghamshire Fire Liaison Panel, a plated alloy enamel badge, back engraved (Winning Team), 38mm; Buckinghamshire Girl Guides, a brass enamel badge by A. Wylie & Co, London, 28 x 26mm; S.H.V.S.C., a brass enamel badge by H.W. Miller Ltd, 24 x 21mm; together with other Bucks-related badges (3), one silver-gilt, dated 1897, others by Fattorini [26]. Generally very fine to extremely fine (£40-60)

Provenance:
P. Preston-Morley Collection, DNW Auction 54, 19 June 2002, lots 620, 706