British and World Coins, Historical Medals

Jersey Medals, Mrs Malfilatre’s Establishment, a silver award medal, unsigned, named (First Prize Merit, Miss Phillips), rev. (I. Bynam, Professor of Dancing), 37mm. Very fine; with loop for suspension £300-£400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Michael Gietzelt Collection of Coins, Tokens and Medals of the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.

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Provenance: DNW Auction 137, 21-23 September 2016, lot 444

Mrs Malfilatre’s School, Hemery Place, St Helier, is listed in the Strangers Guide to the Island of Jersey, published in 1833, which also shows an establishment under the charge of a Mme Malfilatre at the Corinthian Hall, New street. The proprietor of one (if not both) establishments was almost certainly Sophie Catherine Charlotte Alphonse Louise Malfilatre, formerly of Calvados, who was listed in the 1841 Census as a governess, aged 40, living at Hemery Place; it appears she was †by February 1853