Commemorative, Historical and Art Medals

Architecture and Building, Royal Institute of British Architects, a silver award medal, unsigned (by B. Wyon?), legend within wreath, rev. named (Medal of Merit with an Honourable Addition thereto to Mr C.F. Hayward for his Essay on the Pre-Gothic Age in Germany or the Romanesque Development of the Rhine and Central Europe, 1853), 58mm. Sometime cleaned, nearly extremely fine, rare; in fitted case of issue £70-90

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, British Medals from the Collection of James Spencer.

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Charles Forster Hayward (1830-1905), architect, often involved in the restoration of medieval churches