Auction Catalogue

15 December 2005

Starting at 9:30 AM

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Historical and Art Medals

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

Lot

№ 1366

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15 December 2005

Hammer Price:
£65

Brighton Proprietary School, 1836, Præpositors Prize (Instituted 1850), a silver award medal, unsigned, kneeling robed female, rev. names of educational subjects, named (Harry W. Strevens, Christmas 1864), 44mm; Downside School, c. 1870, a copper award medal, unsigned [by T. Moring], pax in wreath, rev. legend, un-named, 45mm; Department of Science and Art, Queen’s National Medal, 1856, a bronze award after W. Wyon, coronetted head of Victoria left, rev. legend in wreath, edge named (Alfred Appleby Longden, Subject 8b1, 1895), 55mm (E 1511); Department of Science and Art, Queen’s National Medal, 1897, a bronze award by F. Bowcher, crowned bust of Victoria left, rev. similar, edge named (Douglas Anderson, Subject 15b, 1897), 51mm; The Royal Sanitary Institute (Founded 1876), an oval bronze award medal, unsigned, Hygeia with serpent, rev. named (Conjoint Award to E.H. Parkinson and J. Roger Preston, for the Henry Saxon Snell Prize Essay, 1906), 51 x 41mm; Imperial College of Science & Technology, John Perry Medal, a silver award by Sir C. Wheeler, bust left, rev. legend in wreath, edge named (Stanley Evans Green, Session 1920-21), 45mm [6]. Second mint state, in original turned bakelite box of issue bearing the label of T. Moring, Engraver, 44 High Holborn, others generally very fine (£50-70)