Auction Catalogue
20th Century, Photographic Society of Ireland, a bronze award medal, unsigned [by J.A. Restall], arms in quadrilobe, rev. wreath, named (Class I, Lantern Slides, Montague Wickham, 1910), 51mm (Frazer p.199; cf. DNW 61, 1309). Good very fine (£40-60)
Provenance:
Noble Numismatics Auction 85A (Melbourne), 24-7 July 2007, lot 1114.
Montague Wickham, who lived at Northwood, Middlesex, was a very able photographer, both as a technician and a picture-maker. He is known to have joined the Edinburgh Photographic Society in 1911 and received an honourable mention for his lantern slides at their annual exhibition in March 1914. A box of Wickham’s lantern slides, catalogued as ‘night views of London theatres, etc’ and taken in 1912-13, turned up at a local auction in the north-east a few years ago and was acquired for the Newcastle Arts Centre, who mounted two exhibitions of them in 2002 and 2006. Further detail is sold with the lot
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