Coins and Historical Medals

Passmore Edwards Settlement, London, 1903, a bronze Memorial medal for the Encouragment of Club Room Games and Gymnastics, legend, rev. in memory of henry devereux spratt, etc, 56mm. Extremely fine, rare; in black fitted case of issue £80-£100

The Passmore Edwards Settlement, a building in Tavistock place, London, opened in October 1897 and was named after John Passmore Edwards (1823-1911), a self-made Cornish-born newspaper magnate. The medal names Henry Devereux Spratt and Robert Harry Pye, two associates of the Settlement, killed in the Boer War