Historical and Art Medals, Numismatic Books

Scotland, High School of Glasgow, Elocution, 1846, a hollow engraved silver award by D.C. Rait, legend, rev. named (To Thos. R. Robb from A.J.D.D.), hallmarked Glasgow 1843, 46mm (Grimshaw p.22; Brodie 621, this piece). Good very fine, attractive; with clip and ring for suspension (£40-60)

Provenance:
N.G. Brodie Collection, DNW Auction 41, 3 June 1999, lot 621 [from Baldwin September 1992].

A.J.D.D. are the initials of the Revd. Alex J.D. D'Orsey (†1894), an English master at the school from 1834-54, who was ordained a priest in 1847 and was subsequently appointed chaplain and lecturer in English history at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in 1860; from 1864 to 1890 he lectured at King's College, London