Coins and Historical Medals

SUSSEX, Brighton, Miss Gill’s School, Brunswick Square, a silver Prize of Honor medal after Ottley by G.W. Adams for Chawner & Co, legend in wreath, rev. legend, named (Miss E. Wilson, Christmas 1858), hallmarked London 1858, 51mm, 44.76g. Extremely fine and attractively toned £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, British Educational Award Medals from the Collection formed by the late T.H. Watts.

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Miss Gill ran a small private girls school at 25 Brunswick Square from the 1840s until the 1860s. Brighton Museum and Art Gallery possess a medal awarded in 1850