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12–14 December 2017

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Lot

№ 112

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12 December 2017

Hammer Price:
£130

Christ’s Hospital, silver Marker’s medals by L. Pingo (2), edges named (Wriothesley Sinclair, 1833…Alfred Coleman, 1847), both 35mm (Eimer 66a; MI I, 61/16; E 29; Grimshaw 90) [2]. First very fine and toned, second fine £70-90

Wriothesley Sinclair (1818-40), gentleman, Pembroke College, Oxford, died of consumption in Kensington in June 1840, aged 22. He was named after the son of the then Duke of Bedford (the family then living in Woburn); his father was the Scottish horticulturist George Sinclair (1787-1834)