Auction Catalogue

17 March 2004

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Ancient, British and World Coins and Banknotes

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

Lot

№ 1429

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17 March 2004

Hammer Price:
£70

Malta, Malta Championship, 110 Stone Tug of War, 1905 and 1909, an engraved silver Maltese Cross-shaped badge by Mappin & Webb, with 9ct gold centre, named (Sapper T. Cottrell, 28th Co. R.E.), hallmarked Birmingham 1909, 36 x 33mm; H.M.S. Medway II, Malta, an openwork silver and stippled Maltese Cross-shaped badge, named (T. Jones, Football Cup, 1944-45), 47 x 38mm [2]. Very fine; both with suspension loops (£60-80)

The vendor states: first medal “supposedly presented by Edward VII when he visited Malta in 1909”