Auction Catalogue

13 July 2011

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Commemorative, Historical and Art Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 1451

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13 July 2011

Hammer Price:
£40

Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society (Inst. 1833), a silver Second Class award medal by W. Wyon, bust of James Watt left, rev. legend, edge named (Captain Paget & Lieut. Abney, for Photographs, 1870), 45mm (E 1272). Test scratch in obverse field and has been cleaned, otherwise about extremely fine; in maroon fitted case by R.S. Rowell, Watchmaker & Jeweller, Oxford £30-50

The recipients entered seven photographs of Pau Castle in the Society’s 1870 exhibition, which ‘would not disgrace the hands of the greatest master of the photographic profession’ according to a contemporary report, a copy of which is sold with the lot