Ancient, British and World Coins, Medallions and Books

Shipwrecked Fishermen & Mariners’ Benevolent Society, 1843, a white metal medal by J. Davis, 44mm (BHM 2110; E 1376); Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, a silver award medal, unsigned, named (R.A.C.A.S., Medal for Greatest Number of Marks, 76, Won by G.F. Heath, Apl. 8th, 1880), 42mm; Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886, a bronze award medal by L.C. Wyon, un-named, 52mm (BHM 3209; E 1725; Pudd. 886.1.2); Royal Engineers, Armstrong Memorial Prize, 1902, a silver award by F. Bowcher, named (Gentleman Cadet F.B. Baines-Hewitt, 1923), 57mm (cf. DNW 29 June 2006, 1030) [4]. Extremely fine; first in turned wooden box, others in cases of issue £100-150

Provenance: Third gift of the Prince of Wales to his chief clerk, Sir Francis Morgan Bryant (1859-1938), father of the historian Arthur Bryant (1899-1985), bt Spink 1988.

Frederic B. Baines-Hewitt, RE (†1981), was the officer commanding the Royal Engineers on Mauritius at the outbreak of the Second World War. He was stationed in Iraq during the conflict and subsequently became a prominent British Muslim and took the name Col. Abdullah Baines-Hewitt. He authored several religious tracts. Following his death in Sussex, his medals and awards were inherited by a relative in New Zealand and were disposed of there