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

№ 1447

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6 December 2012

Hammer Price:
£180

ENGLAND, The Guards Regiments, 1978, a set of eight small silver boxes by the Franklin Mint, in fitted case, with explanatory details; Modern commemorative stamp replicas, 1981-82, an album of 27 gilt-metal stamps in first day cover envelopes; Thomason Medallic Bible, 1970, a Franklin Mint set of 60 reduced-size bronze medals; Metropolitan Police medal, in case, gifted to the television presenter Shaw Taylor [Lot]. Most as issued; in cases or albums £100-150

Provenance: E.W. Danson Collection.

Shaw Taylor, MBE, currently aged 87, presenter of the London Weekend Television programme Police Five, which had helped to recover medallions stolen from Kew Palace. Sold with copy letter from St James's Palace and Shaw’s letter (1996) to a charity for the medal to be sold to benefit the British Paralympics team