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№ 620

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23 June 2021

Hammer Price:
£70

London, United Hospitals Athletic Club, Silver Prize Medal, 70mm, by Mappin & Webb, hallmarked Birmingham 1913, 160.71g., unnamed, in its Mappin & Webb fitted presentation case, good very fine £100-£140

Sold with attribution to John Harris Ekin Sandford, of Moneymore, County Derry, who won it whilst a student at Guys Hospital in 1913. He served in the Great War as a Captain with the 4th Bedfordshire Regiment in the 63rd (R.N.) Division. With research including a copied group image of the officer of the 4th Beds. in September 1917.