Sign in
13 July 2011
Starting at 10:00 AM
Washington Mayfair Hotel London W1J 5HE
Advanced Search
887 lots found
Sort By
Hammer (High–Low)
Lot
Medals of the Early Colonial Period and the European Heritage, Capture of Morro Castle, Havana, and the Deaths of Don Luis de Velasco and Vincenzo Gonzales, 1763, a silver medal by T.F. Prieto, conjoined busts of Velasco and Gonzales right, bewigged and wearing frock coats, rev. fort’s magazine explodes with great force, ships and boats around, soldiers on the land, 49mm, 66.78g (Betts 443). Edge nicks, good fine £600-800
Hammer Price: £800
Jamaica, The University of the West Indies, Kingston, a gold award medal by Toye Kenning & Spencer, arms of the university, rev. wreath, named (To Mr Leopold Taylor, For 21 Years Service, 1960-1981), 51mm, 9ct, 57.43g. Extremely fine £500-600
Trinidad, An engraved silver medal, named (To Wm. Bartholomew from his mistress Mrs Lake, Trinidad), rev. (As a reward for his honesty and industry), 36mm, 15.72g. Very fine; with loop for suspension £300-400
Hammer Price: £780
United Kingdom, British Colonies and unspecified British-made Anti-Slavery Medals, Anti-Slavery Convention, London, 1840, a white metal medal by J. Davis after B.R. Haydon, bust of Thomas Clarkson three-quarters right, rev. slave in chains kneels with arms raised to God, 52mm (BHM 1977; E 1342). Extremely fine £200-250
A group of enamelled collar studs (9), fashioned from Victorian Sixpences, 1869-77, the obverses with well-executed portraits of Shakespeare, Disraeli, Gladstone, etc; together with a pair of Sixpences, 1877-8, enamelled with matching portraits of Shakespeare [11]. Very fine, excellent workmanship £100-150
Hammer Price: £750
Irish Football Association (Est. 1880), gold badges (5), arms and supporters, crest, a lion (2), named (W. Gibson, C.F.C., 1894-95…W. Gibson, C.F.C., 1896-7), hallmarked s&sld Dublin 1894 and 1896, both 26 x 23mm, 9ct; C.A.F.A., engraved gold badges (2), by B.H. Joseph & Co and by J. Moore, named (W.K. Gibson 1898….W.K. Gibson 190[–]), hallmarked Chester 1897 and Birmingham 1901, both 28 x 26mm, 15ct and 9ct; an engraved cruciform badge by B.H. Joseph & Co, named (W.K. Gibson 1901),...
Hammer Price: £720
Medals of the Early Colonial Period and the European Heritage, Capture of Morro Castle, Havana, and the Deaths of Don Luis de Velasco and Vincenzo Gonzales, 1763, a plated copper medal by T.F. Prieto, from the same dies as previous, 49mm (Betts 443). Silvering rubbed, otherwise very fine, obverse better £400-500
Haiti, Jean-Pierre Boyer, President, 1818, a uniface gilt electrotype medal, unsigned, uniformed bust right, 68mm. A little stained, otherwise very fine; perhaps made as a box-lid or for framing £200-250
Hammer Price: £680
Jamaica, The University of the West Indies, Kingston, a gold award medal by Toye Kenning & Spencer, arms of the university, rev. wreath, named (To Miss E.T. Morrison, For 21 Years Service, 1953-1974), 51mm, 9ct, 43.82g. Extremely fine £400-500
Medals of the Early Colonial Period and the European Heritage, Cercle des Philadelphes du Cap-François (Est. 1788), a silver medal by M. Simon, from the same dies as previous, 32mm, 16.13g. Very fine; perhaps a restrike £100-150
Hammer Price: £650
United Kingdom, British Colonies and unspecified British-made Anti-Slavery Medals, Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807, a silver medal by T. Webb, bust of William Wilberforce right, rev. Britannia with Victory and other allegorical figures, 53mm (BHM 627; E 983). Extremely fine £300-400
Hammer Price: £620
Medals of the Early Colonial Period and the European Heritage, Cercle des Philadelphes du Cap-François (Est. 1788), a silver medal by M. Simon, bust of Louis XVI right, rev. sun shines on hive with bees, 32mm, 11.96g. Good fine, toned £150-200
Jamaica, St Ann’s Bay Anti-Slavery Society, 1839, a copper medal by J. Davis, bust of Joseph Sturge right, rev. negro couple with infant seated by palm, 42mm (BHM 1893; E 1331). Extremely fine, rare £250-300
Visit of the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia to Birmingham, 1847, a silver medal by G.R. Collis, bust right in military attire, rev. legend in 15 lines, 52mm (BHM 2263). Edge bruise on reverse at 11 o’clock and other minor rim marks, otherwise extremely fine and dark-toned, extremely rare; in maroon case of issue by G.R. Collis, Goldsmiths, Silversmiths, Medalists, &c To the Royal Family, Church Street, Birmingham, gilt-blocked with Constantine’s personal crest £300-400
Hammer Price: £600
The medals and awards of Tommy Gillett, a prominent Midlands professional footballer in the Inter-War Years: Birmingham Youth & Old Boys Football Association, a silver and enamel badge by W.H. Sparrow, named (B. & I.L. Div. 1, T. Gillett, 1907-8), hallmarked Birmingham 1907, 37 x 25mm; 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal (B-1875 Cpl. J.T. Gillett, Rif: Brig:), rank altered on Star; Southern Counties Cross Country Championship, a silver award medal by Vaughton, named (1915...
United Kingdom, British Colonies and unspecified British-made Anti-Slavery Medals, Negro Emancipation in the West Indies, 1838, a white metal medal by J. Davis, from the same dies as previous, 51mm (BHM 1876; E 1317a). Extremely fine £100-150
Hammer Price: £580
Armagh Cattle Show, 1834, a uniface oval silver award medal, unsigned, farm-hand guiding a pair of oxen right, plough in left foreground, back named (Awarded to His Grace the Lord Primate for the Best Bull at the Armagh Cattle Show of 1834), 81 x 56mm. Pierced for suspension, fine, very rare and interesting by association £200-300
Hammer Price: £550
Medals of the Early Colonial Period and the European Heritage, Abolition of Slavery, 1834, a silver medal by F.C. Krohn, laureate bust of Frederick VI of Denmark right, legend below in two lines, rev. standing figure of Dania, as Justice, foot on prow, lion resting beside her, 62mm (Bergsøe 115; BDM III, 224). Bright from old cleaning, several rim nicks and scuffs, otherwise very fine £500-700
Long Service, Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd (Est. 1926), award medals by Fattorini and Vaughton (17), in gold (3), silver and enamel (14), all named, viz: Alexander Walker & Co Ltd (G. Irvine, 34 Years, 1928); British Copper Manufacturers Ltd (2, gold: J. Williams, 40 Years, 1928, 9ct, 19.14g; silver: W. Owen, 27 Years, 1928); The British Leather Cloth Manufacturing Co Ltd (A. Shaw, 25 Years, 1928); Brunner, Mond & Co Ltd (2, gold: W. Kettle, 40 Years, 1931, 9ct, 16.87g; silver: J....
Jamaica, Portland House, a Haiti, Jean-Pierre Boyer, 100 Cents, AN 27 [1830], the fields once gilt, engraved at top of rev. (Portland House) (cf. KM. 23). Pierced, otherwise fine £60-80
Yorkshire Numismatic Society, Golden Jubilee, 1959, a gold medal after T. Sheppard and by A.E. Bagnall for Fattorini, cruciform shields, rev. commemorating the festival at the cartwright memorial hall bradford, etc, hallmarked Birmingham 1958, 45mm, 9ct, 46.02g. Virtually as struck, extremely rare; in case of issue £400-500
Hammer Price: £520
Medals of the Early Colonial Period and the European Heritage, Compagnie Française des Indes Orientales, 1723, a silver jeton signed I.B., two Indians with bows as supporters to crowned shield, rev. starboard portrait of ship in full sail, 31mm, 7.72g (Betts 113). About very fine, toned £90-120
Colombia, Simon Bolivar, Liberator of Slaves, 1846, a silver medal by C. Voigt, Bolivar stands right, a negro couple, she suckling child, he on knees clasping Bolivar’s leg, rev. statue of Bolivar in Bogota, 48mm (Urdaneta-Braschi 1B2). Very fine £300-400
St Vincent, St Vincent's Black Corps, 1795, a pair of pewter squeezes of the obv. and rev. of the medal signed H.G. (? Henry Gretton), from the same dies as previous, both 48mm (E 870; Betts 530) [2]. Very fine, rare £300-400
United Kingdom, British Colonies and unspecified British-made Anti-Slavery Medals, ENGLAND, William III, Halfcrown [1695-1701], engraved (Love is true to none but you, E. Lee), rev. (Part’d my true love and I my, W. Cooksley, the ship Ville de Paris), 32mm, 13.21g. Attempted piercing at top with the intention for wear, coin very worn, engraved work very fine, interesting and rare, of particular Jamaican interest £300-400
Hammer Price: £500
George I, Accession, 1714, a silver medal, unsigned [by G. Vestner], laureate bust right, rev. star in the midst of the constellation of Leo, 44mm, 28.81g (MI II, 421/4; E 464). Cleaned in the past and with associated surface marks, otherwise very fine, rare £300-350
United Kingdom, British Colonies and unspecified British-made Anti-Slavery Medals, Negro Emancipation in the West Indies, 1838, a white metal medal by T. Halliday, white couple meeting negro family, father, mother and young girl, rev. legend and names within and around palm wreath, 32mm (BHM 1881). Extremely fine £70-90
Hammer Price: £490
British Guiana, George V, Coronation, 1911, a gold medal, unsigned, conjoined crowned busts left, rev. two sailing ships surrounded by crowned circle containing motto, hallmarked fg Birmingham 1910, 32mm, 15ct, 18.86g. Virtually as struck £300-350
Hammer Price: £480
Colombia, Simon Bolivar, Liberator of Slaves, 1846, a copper medal by C. Voigt, from the same dies as previous, 48mm (Urdaneta-Braschi 1B2). Extremely fine £150-200
Barbados, The Rev. John Rotherham, a carved ivory roundel, bewigged bust right wearing ecclesiastical gown and collar, name around, 58mm. Very fine £100-150
Hammer Price: £460
France, Léda et le Cygne, 1925, a uniface Art Déco bronze plaque by A. Lavrillier, Léda with swan, 100 x 61mm (Maier 313; Classens 107; CGMP p.228; Jones, Art of the Medal, 418; The Medal 44, p.46; cf. DNW M5, 1541). One of the classic Art Déco medallic images, about extremely fine, rare £300-400
Ornithology, LONDON, Sydenham, Original Challenge Cup Medal, a silver award by J.A. Restall, four pigeons standing, rev. wreath, named (1889, Crystal Palace, Awarded to Mr Joseph Smith for Best Satinette bred in 1889, Class 389), 51mm; Cage Bird Show, Crystal Palace, 1893, a silver award medal by E. Tyler, named (For Must Points, Foreign Birds, won by Mrs Pretyman), 38mm (Allen 1887/010); Great National Pigeon Show, Crystal Palace, 1900, a silver award medal by J.A. Restall, named (3rd...
Gold Coast, African Chief’s Medal, an oval bronze medal by B. Mackennal and E. Carter Preston, crowned bust of George V left, rev. elephant with trunk extended, leaf-wreath border with lion terminals extending to crown suspender and ring, 66.5 x 50mm (Jamieson pp.90-1). Extremely fine; with integral loop and ring for suspension and original faded orange ribbon £300-400
United Kingdom, British Colonies and unspecified British-made Anti-Slavery Medals, Negro Emancipation in the West Indies, Reward of Merit, 1838, a white metal medal by J. Davis, from the same obv. die as previous, rev. legend in wreath, 38mm (BHM –). Pierced, otherwise virtually mint state £100-150
Hammer Price: £450
United States of America, Abolition of Slavery Proclaimed, 1862, a copper medal by H. Bovy, bearded bust of Abraham Lincoln right, rev. with malice towards none, etc, 61mm (King 230). Good very fine £120-150
Hammer Price: £440
United Kingdom, British Colonies and unspecified British-made Anti-Slavery Medals, Admiral Willem Crul Killed in Action off St. Eustatius, 1781, a silver medal by J.G. Holtzhey, bewigged bust three-quarters right, rev. Mercury weeps at monument on displaying naval action, 46mm, 32.56g (Betts 581; Peltzer 673; van Loon Suppl. 556). About extremely fine £300-400
United Kingdom, British Colonies and unspecified British-made Anti-Slavery Medals, Abolition of Slavery, 1834, a copper medal by T. Halliday, William enthroned, two statesmen to either side, rev. group of seven negroes, hands linked, dancing around a palm, 41mm (BHM 1673; E 1276). Extremely fine £200-250
Hammer Price: £430
United Kingdom, British Colonies and unspecified British-made Anti-Slavery Medals, Capture of St Eustatius, 1781, a copper medalet, unsigned, uniformed bust of Admiral Rodney right, wearing tricorn hat, rev. ship sailing left, sandwich above, 24mm (BHM 237). Extremely fine, an unusually well preserved example £80-100
Hammer Price: £420
Jamaica, Sir Henry de la Beche, Good Conduct award, c. 1823-4, a copper medalet by T. Saulini, bust left, rev. halse hall jamaica reward for good conduct, 24mm (BDM VI, 683). Extremely fine £200-300
Jamaica, King Street Chapel, Falmouth, a copper medal by J. Davis, bust of William Knibb right, rev. three-quarter façade of the chapel, details of its size and capacity below, 41mm (BHM 1755; E 1300). Dull surface, otherwise extremely fine £250-300
Clicking the 'CONFIRM DELETE LIST' button below will delete this list and the lots contained within it.
This is non-reversible!
Share This Page