Coins and Historical Medals

England, Metropolitan College of Pharmacy, a copper award medal, unsigned, Science standing right amidst instruments and appliances, rev. wreath, named (Herbert Cyril Swanley Booth, 1900), 63mm. Some scratches on reverse, otherwise good very fine £40-£50

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Don Kenefick Collection of Historical Medals.

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Provenance: Baldwin Auction, 19 November 2011, lot 582.

Herbert Cyril Swanley Booth (1877-1960), b St Albans; employed by Albert Pollard, pharmacist, 3 The parade, Margate, 1901; from 1903 to 1939 he worked in HM’s naval medical establishments, firstly in Plymouth, then Chatham, Portland, back to Plymouth and finally in the Royal Hospital in Valletta, Malta. In later life he lived at Tollerton, Nottinghamshire