Auction Catalogue

7 & 8 December 2015

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Coins, Tokens, Historical Medals and Paper Money

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Lot

№ 557

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7 December 2015

Hammer Price:
£120

United Hospitals Swimming Club, The Bath Club, a bronze award medal, unsigned, named (Diving, 1924, E. Kendall), 50mm; Croydon Borough Swimming Association, a bronze badge, named (1948 Girls 100 Yds Back Stroke Cham. 1st A. Kendall, Cr. Ladies), 38 x 21mm; Royal Borough of Kingston Regatta, 1950, a plated award medal, 33mm; County of London Swimming Championships (2), silver and bronze (1954 Championships Meeting, Back Stroke (Women), 3rd; North Area Meeting, Back Stroke (Women) 2nd, 1954), former hallmarked ls ld Birmingham 1953, both 39mm; Surrey County Water Polo & Swimming Association, bronze award medals (6), all awarded 1947-9, each 25mm, and an enamelled award medal (Mens Free-Style Team, 1st, 1956), 33mm; Southern Counties Amateur Swimming Association, bronze award medals (2), named (Mile, A.E. Kendall, 31m 51s; 440 Yds, A.E. Kendall, 6m 51s), both 26mm; Great Britain, an enamelled bronze medal (Six Nations Contest, Blackpool, 13th & 14th Sept. 1963), 38mm; AUSTRALIA, Federation Internationale de Natation, a bronze award medal by Denham Neal & Treloar, Sydney, rev. engraved (Melbourne, 1956), 60mm; together with other swimming awards (4, one in silver), including an FIMS Olympic Games cliché [Lot]. 1956 Melbourne medal mint state, others generally very fine; five in cases £100-150

Reportedly owned by Dr A. Kendall, brother of Pat Kendall (b. 1927), who represented Great Britain at the 1948 Olympic Games and the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland, NZ, and was the British swimming team doctor at the Olympic Games in Melbourne, 1956