Auction Catalogue

6 December 2012

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Commemorative, Historical and Art Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 1120

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6 December 2012

Hammer Price:
£180

Great Britain, George V, Coronation, 1911, bronze medals (6), by the Birmingham Guild of Medallists, for Manchester, edge named (Presented by the Mayor of St Pancras, Lord Edmund Talbot, DSO, MP, 1910-11), 57mm (W & E 5042.1a); by A. Halliday for Elkington, 64mm (W & E 5075; BHM 4042; E 1923); by A. Toft for the Mint, Birmingham, 52mm (W & E 5175A.2; BHM 4055); smaller (3), including Wimbledon and London College of Music; Investiture of the Prince of Wales, 1911, a silver medal by W. Goscombe John, 35mm (Giordano 23b; W & E 6050; BHM 4079; E 1925); George V, Jubilee, 1935, a bronze medal by J.A. Restall, 52mm (W & E 5732) [8]. Extremely fine; first in fitted case by Edwin H. Lewis, Chichester, several others also in cases £100-150

The first medal would seem to be the actual specimen recorded by W & E, although they have mis-inscribed the edge legend by adding ‘Chichester’