Historical and Art Medals, Numismatic Books

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy of Music, a silver badge for Clare, Dublin, crowned harp, named (‘Joseph Robinson Memorial’, Vocal Prize, Eva Cemon, 1906), hallmarked wgm Birmingham 1906, 35 x 29mm; Belvedere College Swimming Club, a silver award medal by W.J. Dingley for Weir, Dublin, arms, rev. wreath, named (100 Yds Club Championship 1921, M. Hogan), hallmarked Birmingham 1920, 32mm; Royal Dublin Society, Art Exhibition, Ballsbridge, 1922, an oval silver award medal by W.J. Dingley, Hibernia seated left, head turned back, holding cornucopia and spear, rev. named (Awarded to Em. O’R. Dickey, for Landscape), hallmarked Birmingham 1922, 31 x 23mm (Went –); Irish Salon of Photography, a bronze-gilt medal stamped h&h, four shields around central motif, rev. corded wreath, named (Class F, C. Horace Clarke, 1929), 32mm; Colaiste Laighean [Leinster College of Irish], a silver award medal, unsigned, harp in shield, rev. wreath, named in Gaelic, awarded 1929, 38mm [5]. Generally about extremely fine; first and third with rings 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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Belvedere College, a boy’s private secondary school run by the Jesuit order, Great Denmark street; the first Irish Salon of Photography, organised by the photographer and Jesuit priest Francis Patrick Mary Browne (1880-1960) was held in 1927