Ancient, British and World Coins and Banknotes

Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, Datchet, 1887, a white metal medal by J. Pinches for Waterlows, crowned bust of Victoria left, rev. crown, datchet jubilee of her majesty’s reign 1887 in five lines, 36mm (Whittlestone & Ewing 2318C; Grant, BNJ XXIII, p.340); Mid-Bucks Motor Cycling Club, a bronze enamel award medal by Vaughton, swan chained, rev. wreath, named (D.G. Seaton, Hillclimb, 1922), 26mm; Mid-Bucks Motor Cycling Club, a silver and blue enamel badge, unsigned, Aylesbury duck in reeds, legend on garter around, 27mm; West of England Motor Club, a bronze award medal, arms, named (Plymouth Trial, October 2nd 1926, Second Team Prize, G.H.S. Letchworth), 30mm; Harborne Musical Festival, a silver badge, named (Stanley A. Webb, Oct. 14th 1938), hallmarked Chester 1937, 31 x 27mm; together with other silver award medals (2) [7]. Very fine and better, first very rare (£50-70)

Provenance:
First three P. Preston-Morley Collection, DNW Auction 54, 19 June 2002, lots 624 (part) and 702 (part).

The second item is believed to have been awarded for the club’s closed-road hillclimb at Kop Hill, near Princes Risborough. Kop Hill was one of a number of stretches of unmetalled public roads used by local motor clubs up and down the country for competitions both before and after the Great War, such events attracted large crowds. Unfortunately, a spectator fatality when a car crashed into the crowd at an event on Kop Hill in 1925 led to the banning of such events on the public road. G.H.S. Letchworth is known to have used a 10hp Fiat on some of the classic trials in the early 1920s