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№ 1336

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24 March 2016

Hammer Price:
£420

Centenary of the Birth of Robert Burns, 1859, medals by J. Moore (2), silver and copper, no obv. legend, 41mm (both BHM 2651; E 1526; Brodie 188); Parish School of Lochcarron, an engraved silver Scholarship and Good Conduct award medal from The Rt. Hon. Sir John Stuart of Lochcarron, named (Alexander Murchison…1872), 37mm; Kelso Public School, Roxburghe Prize, a silver award medal by Davis, Birmingham, named (Robert Middlemas…Best Pupil…History & Geography Department, July 1882), 51mm (Brodie 656-7; D & W 237/267); Dumfries Dog Show, 1892, a bronze award medal by Vaughton, un-named, 39mm (Brodie –; cf. DNW 62, 1410); Renfrewshire Agricultural Society, a silver award medal, unsigned, named (Show 1897, Best Pony Stallion, won by John Paton), 35mm (Brodie –; cf. DNW M12, 265); Highland & Agricultural Society of Scotland, a silver award medal, unsigned [by A. Kirkwood], named (John Caddel, Coilvoulin, for Roots, 1898), 45mm (Brodie 97-8); Kelvinside Academy, Glasgow, a silver award medal by D. Cunninghame, named (Eric Charles William Arend, Fifth Upper Modern, Dux, 1905), 51mm (Brodie –; cf. DNW 62, 1530) [8]. Sixth very fine, others extremely fine and better; first two in cases of issue £150-200

Provenance: Second bt J. Whitmore November 1985; third bt J. Whitmore November 1987; fourth bt H. Brown March 1987; fifth bt S.E. Schwer May 1986; sixth and last bt J. Whitmore May 1987; seventh bt Barbara Armstrong September 1981.

Eric Charles William Arend (1890-1966), b. Partick, served as a captain in the Cheshire Regiment in World War I, d. Kilmacolm