Florence Nightingale, 1855, medals by T.R. Pinches (2), in copper and white metal, bust left reading book, revs. oval badge within wreath, both 42mm (BHM 2668A; E 1493; Storer 2611); Florence Nightingale, St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School Prize, 1914, a silver medal by Countess Feodora ‘Gleichen’ for Pinches, 45mm (BHM 4114; MJP p.191); 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Florence Nightingale, 1970, uniface medals by Sutton for the Medical Heritage Society (2), in silver and bronze, both 76mm;
C[onfederation] o[f] H[ealth] S[ervice] E[mployees], a blue enamel badge by Fattorini, 29mm; Voluntary Medical Services, Long Service medal, silver, by P. Metcalfe, named (B. Cairns), 38mm; together with a modern uniface cast medal by Innminiature, Matlock, based on the rev. of the 1855 Pinches medal but named for the Brontë sisters, 119mm [8]. Extremely fine, first and fourth cased; sold with relating pamphlets on Nightingale in Derbyshire £150-200

Provenance: E.W. Danson Collection [fourth SNC February 1988 (576); fifth bt J. Whitmore May 2000; seventh SCMB June 1969 (F 7507)].

Third only illustrated; the medallist’s real name was Princess Feodora Georgina Maude von Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1861-1922). Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) lived at Lea Hurst, Holloway, Derbyshire, early in life