Auction Catalogue

21 & 24 March 2016

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Lot

№ 1333

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24 March 2016

Hammer Price:
£300

Great Exhibition, Hyde Park, 1851, an Exhibitor’s copper medal by W. Wyon, edge impressed (British Guiana No. 159), 44mm (Allen A55; BHM 2463; E 1459); Department of Science and Art, Queen’s National Medal, 1856, in copper, by W. Wyon, named (George M. Paterson, Edinburgh Male School, Stage 5B, 1863), 55mm (E 1511); Newbury Art & Industrial Exhibition, 1884, a silver award medal, unsigned [for Thomas Garlick, Newbury], named (W.H. Bravant, For specimen of Artistic Printing), 41mm (Allen –); Exeter College Boat Club, Oxford, a silver award medal, unsigned [for Rowell & Harris, Oxford], engraved (Meade Fours, 1885), 52mm (cf. DNW 57, 1470); Gardening and Forestry Exhibition, London, 1893, a silver award medal by G. Cook, London, named (George Cadell), 41mm (cf. DNW 130, 1661); Epsom College, Propert Prize, a bronze award medal by J.S. & A.B. Wyon, named (P.H. Kealy, 1896), 57mm (MJP p.39; cf. DNW 66, 1078); Sherborne School, a bronze award medal, unsigned [by J. Pinches], engraved (Swimming, 1901, 300 Yards, Open, 2nd), 51mm; City and Guilds of London Institute, a bronze award medal by E.D. Jackman for Pinches, named (Douglas Home Watson, Watch & Clock Making, 2nd Prize, 1912), 51mm (E 1684); Royal Academy of Music, award medals by J. Pinches (2), named (silver: Dorothy Munns, Pianoforte, 1918; bronze: Gwendolyn M. Berdoe, Pianoforte, 1922), 40mm; together with an uninscribed silver livestock award medal by W.J. Dingley, hallmarked Birmingham 1921 [11]. Extremely fine and better, Newbury very rare; all except Epsom and 1918 Royal Academy medal in cases of issue £150-200

Provenance: First and ninth bt V. Henstridge July 1987; third bt V. Henstridge August 1987; fifth bt Barbara Armstrong September 1981; last bt H. Brown July 1987.

The first medal was awarded to Jonathan Hopkinson for a Japanned cup and plate, made from the native fig-tree. George Cadell (1844-1909); for other medals to him, see Lots 1330, 1338 and 1424