Ancient, British and World Coins, Tokens, Jetons, Medals and Books

Medals, Miscellaneous, SCOTLAND, Edinburgh University, a copper award medal for Clinical Surgery, named (F.W.W. Baillie, 1914), 52mm; Hamburg-Amerika Line, a silver Long Service medal, named, (Aufseher Claus Tietjen 1 Januar 1909), 37mm [2]. First very fine, second better £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Coins, Tokens and Medals of the Caribbean from the late Raymond Brandon Collection.

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Provenance: First bt Marion Marshall.

Frederick William Watson Baillie (1892-1964), elder son of Revd W. Baillie, of Wesley Mount, Williamsfield, Jamaica. Brandon’s index card has a photograph of Baillie. His younger brother, Frank Westmoreland Watson Baillie, was killed in a flying accident shortly after joining the RAF in 1918. In a famous incident in 1906 the Hamburg-Amerika Line’s Prinzessin Victoria Luise ran aground off the coast of Jamaica and whilst no lives were lost, the ship's captain committed suicide