Lot Archive

Lot

№ 132

.

17 June 2010

Hammer Price:
£220

Metropolitan Amateur Regatta, Forster Cup, 1923, a bronze award medal by J.R. Pinches, three-quarter portrait of R.H. Forster stood on river-bank holding megaphone, rev. cup, 57mm (MJP p.106); Henley Regatta (Est. 1839), Thames Challenge Cup, Prize Medal, a silver award by Pinches, edge engraved 1934, 46mm (MJP p.55); Kingston Amateur Regatta, silver award medals, unsigned, un-named, hallmarked G & S Birmingham, 1931, 1933-4, all 51mm; Marlow Amateur Regatta, silver award medals (2), unsigned, hallmarked JF Birmingham 1946 and 1947, both 38mm (cf. Preston-Morley 673); Molesey Amateur Regatta, award medals (3), in silver-gilt (2), engraved (1933, Senior Fours; 1939, Senior Fours), and in bronze-gilt, engraved (M.A.R. 1949, Senior IV), first two hallmarked JAW & Co Birmingham 1932, LS London 1939, all 51mm; O[xford]
U[niversity] B[oat] C[lub]
, Head of the River, a silver award medal, unsigned, un-named, 51mm; Staines Amateur Regatta, a silver-gilt award medal by W.J. Dingley, engraved (1935 Senior Fours), hallmarked Birmingham 1934, 51mm; Festival of Britain Regatta, 1951, a uniface silver and enamel award medal, unsigned, engraved (Emsworth S.C.), 64mm [13]. Generally very fine, silver toned; a good group of rowing medals £200-250

The 1949 Molesey medal is also inscribed with the names of the Senior IV: bow, Morris, Worsnop, Simnett, stroke Wood