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THE PRESTON-MORLEY BUCKINGHAMSHIRE COLLECTION, George V and Queen Mary, Coronation, 1911, Windsor & Neighbourhood, a silver medal, unsigned [by A. Halliday] for Elkington, similar to that in previous lot, hallmarked Birmingham 1910 and named on edge (Rev. J.H. Ellison from The Mayor, C.F. Dyson), both 38mm (cf. BHM 4087 for obv.); Celebration of Peace, 1919, Windsor, Eton and District, a white metal medal, unsigned, similar to that in previous lot, 39mm; Windsor Slough & District [Football] League, a silver enamel badge, arms, back engraved (Div. II, Runners up, 1929-30), hallmarked Birmingham 1929, 30mm; Windsor & Eton Bowling Club, a multicoloured brass enamel badge by Vaughton, 28mm [4]. Football very fine, others about extremely fine and better, first very rare as a named award from the Mayor; second pierced, with original multicoloured ribbon and pin for wear (£60-80)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Preston-Morley Buckinghamshire Collection: Commemorative Medals.

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Provenance:
1911 bt Spink February 1979
1919 bt G. Scott June 1997.
Football bt G. Ferguson February 1990.
Bowls bt G. Ferguson November 1987.

Rev. John Henry Joshua Ellison, CVO (1855-1944), of Windsor and Radlett, Herts; son of Rev. Canon Ellison, founder of the Church of England Temperance Society; educ. Eton and Merton College, Oxford; vicar of St Gabriel’s Pimlico, 1885-95; late Chaplain-in-Ordinary and Reader at Windsor Castle to Queen Victoria and Edward VII; Chaplain in Ordinary to George V, Edward VIII and George VI; Vicar of Windsor 1894-1913; Hon. Chaplain to the London Stock Exchange, 1929.

Sir Charles Frederick Dyson, Kt (1854-1934), of 57 Alma Road, Windsor; Mayor of Windsor 1909-11 and 1922-3. Further details are sold with the lot