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№ 1509 x

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13 July 2011

Hammer Price:
£410

British Guiana, Local Exhibition, 1882, a silver award medal by J.S. & A.B. Wyon, crowned and veiled bust of Victoria left, rev. two sailing ships surrounded by wreath of palm branches, edge named (E.E.H. Francis), 51mm (cf. R.J. Ford I, 450-1). Carefully removed from a circular mount, otherwise extremely fine and toned £250-300

Provenance: Sotheby Auction, 7 February 1973, lot 340 (part).

The [Demerera]
Argosy reports the birth of a son on 18 February, 1887, to E.E.H. Francis of 46 Brickdam