Commemorative, Historical and Art Medals

Birmingham School of Design (Inst. 1842), a silver award medal by J. Moore, bust of Queen Victoria right in mural crown, rev. shield in quadrilobe, implements around, edge named (Thos. Weake, for a Modelled Figure, 1874), 49mm; Industrial Exhibition, Molineux Grounds, Wolverhampton, 1878, a copper award medal by J. Moore, named (J. Sweet, for Lavatory Cistern), 51mm (Allen –); Queen’s College, Birmingham, a copper award medal, unsigned, named (H. Vinrace, Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, 1884), 46mm; The Royal Sanitary Institute, an oval bronze award medal, named (Awarded to I. & M. Steingold for ‘Simplex’ Floor Planing Machine, Birmingham, 1920), 51 x 40mm; Birmingham & District Association of Boy Scouts, a plated bronze medal, unsigned [by A. Fenwick], named (Swimming Sports, 1925, 2 L’gths Junr. Champ., 2nd, L. Ormond), 64mm; Opening of the City of Birmingham Fire Brigade Headquarters, 1935, a bronze medal, unsigned, 64mm [6]. Boy Scouts medal very fine, others about extremely fine and better; second and fifth in cases of issue £70-90

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