British Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Wiltshire Coins and Paranumismatica

HAMPSHIRE, Bisley, National Rifle Association, Life Member’s Pass, ivory, bowman and rifleman standing, rev. legend, named (Honble. Gerald Walsh, 1895) ink script below (W. Mackinnon Col, Sec. N.R.A.), 45mm, 9.30g (W 1508). Extremely fine, rare; pierced for suspension £90-£120

Gerald Walsh (1864-1925), son of Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite, and Lady Katherine Emily Mary Somerset; General Inspector, Local Government Board; lived at Melton Mowbray. Col. William Mackinnon (†1899), Hythe School of Musketry, first secretary of the National Rifle Association 1890-8.

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