Auction Catalogue

9 & 10 December 2003

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Ancient, British and World Coins and Banknotes

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

Lot

№ 1435

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10 December 2003

Hammer Price:
£140

Radley College, Oxford, a silver lozenge-shaped award, unsigned, St Peter, rev. eagle, serpent and scroll, edge named (W.W. Ward, 1872), 80 x 49mm; Ripon College, a small oval silver-gilt award medal, un-named, 27 x 21mm; Itchen Secondary School, Southampton, a bronze award medal, unsigned, named (Junior Throwing the Cricket Ball, 1922, R.F. Grant), 31mm; together with other school award medals (8), all in silver [11]. Mostly very fine, a few better (£60-80)

William Welsford Ward (1854-1932), of Clifton, Somerset, was a solicitor in Bristol from 1880 to 1902 and subsequently treasurer of the Society of Merchant Venturers, Bristol, 1918-31. Further biographical detail is sold with the lot