Coins, Tokens, Historical Medals, Paper Money and Numismatic Books

BRITISH HISTORICAL MEDALS, Mrs Waters Boarding School, 1816, a copper medal by W. Wyon after P. Rouw, 41mm; Presentation of the Colours to, and Organisation of the Regiment of, the Northumberland & Newcastle Yeomanry, 1820, copper medals (2, different), unsigned, both 38mm; Middlesbrough Branch Railway Opened, 1830, a white metal medal by T.W. Ingram, 45mm (BHM 1464; E 1227); Northumberland Parliamentary Elections, Southern Division [1832], a white metal medal, unsigned, 43mm; Exhibition of Art, Manufacture and Science, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1840, a white metal medal, unsigned, 42mm (BHM 1982); Revd. Dr Thomas Chalmers, 1843, a copper medal by J. Taylor, 44mm (BHM 2098); Opening of Mowbray Extension Park, Sunderland, 1866, a white metal medal by J. Moore, 38mm (W & E –); Visit of the Fleet to Sunderland, 1874, brass medals (2, different), unsigned, both 31mm (W & E –); Charter Granted to the Borough of Thornaby-on-Tees, 1892, a bronze medal, unsigned, 41mm; Durham Floral & Industrial Society, a bronze award medal by T. Brewster, named (W.G. Hill), 38mm; Sunderland & District Camera Club, a bronze award medal by Vaughton, named (1916, Miss A. Wardropper), 44mm; together with other miscellaneous base metal medals (21), some for local events [34]. Generally very fine, some scarce £100-150

Provenance: J. Gardiner Collection