Auction Catalogue

19 March 2003

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Ancient, British and World Coins, Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Historical and Art Medals, Numismatic Books and Banknotes. Includes the Ellen Judson Collection of British Tokens (Part II)

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1460

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19 March 2003

Hammer Price:
£35

Great Britain, Athletics: Oxford Gymnasium, a silver award medal, unsigned, building, rev. legend in wreath, named (1888, G.H. Harries), 51mm; Christ’s Hospital Sports, Oxford, a silver award medal, arms, rev. wreath, engraved (Athletics 1913, Mile, Cl[ass] II, 1st), 45mm; Confectioners’, Bakers’ and Allied Trades Annual International Exhibition, London, a silver award medal by Rowell, female figure with sickel and sheaf of wheat, rev. wreath, named (J.R. Hawker, Henley on Thames), hallmarked t&jb Birmingham 1909, 48mm [3]. Last almost extremely fine and toned, others brilliant and practically as struck, these in fitted cases of issue by R.S. Rowell and Rowell & Harris, watchmakers and jewellers, High Street, Oxford (£60-80)

Provenance:
From the stock-in-trade of the late Barry Greenaway