Auction Catalogue

11 & 12 June 2014

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Ancient, British & World Coins, Commemorative Medals and Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 537

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11 June 2014

Hammer Price:
£290

Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, a silver award medal by A. Kirkwood, named (William Dick, Inchgall, For 2 Year old Polled Bull, Kinglassie, 1878), 35mm; Edward VII, Coronation, 1902, silver medals (2), by Fattorini, named (Edinburgh Coronation Fete, A.T. Hutchinson, Secretary), and by J.A. Restall, named (Burgh of Cowdenbeath, Hy. Mungall, Provost), both 38mm (W & E 4220B.1 [not listed in silver], 4520A.1); Fifeshire Pipe Band Association, a gold award badge, unsigned, un-named, hallmarked jc Chester 1931, 26mm, 9ct, 7.61g; Leslie & Kinglassie Agricultural Society, a silver and enamel badge, named (Clydesdale Mare, 4 Y.O., Frank Simpson), hallmarked wa Birmingham 1952, 32 x 26mm; together with other Scottish medals (24), all in base metal, mostly 1887-1920, from Dunfermline, Kinglassie, Dundee (several), Kirkcaldy, Tayport, Kinghorn, Glasgow, Falkirk, Perth, Greenock, Dunbartonshire, etc [29]. Generally very fine, a useful lot £150-200

At least two other similar medals named to A.T. Hutchinson are known (DNW M11, 1136, 1350). Henry Mungall, appointed managing partner of the Cowdenbeath Coal Co in 1870 and subsequently chairman of the Fife Coal Co, was provost of Cowdenbeath’s first Town Council in 1890 and served in that post until 1902