Commemorative, Historical and Art Medals

Miscellaneous Subjects, Oxford Millenary, 1912, a silver award medal by C.W. Thomas, standing figures holding aloft hourglass, rev. view of city within walls, edge named (To Rev. Canon Rawnsley - IMO “A Youthful Knight” of Oxford City Oct. 5. 1908), 51mm (BHM 4094; E 1932). Extremely fine, rare £60-80

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

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Canon Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley (1851-1920), b. Shiplake, Oxon, clergyman, poet and conservationist in the Lake District, co-founder of the National Trust in 1895, an early influence of the author Beatrix Potter and who persuaded her to publish her first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, in 1882