Historical and Art Medals, Numismatic Books

Dublin, Rathmines School, a silver award medal, unsigned, student standing, holding book, telescope, globe and other items at feet, rev. wreath, named (Rev’d. Dr Benson, Master, English History, Alfred Edwin Jones, Christmas Examn., 1871), 43mm (Grimshaw 147; Went, Heritage 136; cf. Baldwin FPL 1998, 164). Good very fine; with clip and ring for suspension (£70-90)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Irish Medals in Gold and Silver from the Collection of James Spencer.

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Rathmines school, a boarding school for Church of Ireland boys, was founded by Dr Charles Benson and Freeman Wills in 1858. The school closed in 1899 when Dr Benson, its only headmaster, retired