Prize, Training Ship, Nursing & Other Medals from the James N. Spencer Collection

6 July 2004

Lot No 920

Addiscombe Military Seminary, Pollock Medal, 1st type (1848-55), by B. Wyon, obverse: bust of Maj...

6 July 2004

Lot No 921

Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Marquis of Granby Medal 1765, by T. Pingo, obverse: laureate he...

6 July 2004

Lot No 922

Royal Artillery Institution Prize Medal 1871, by G. G. Adams, obverse: seated female, wearing rob...

6 July 2004

Lot No 923

Royal Artillery Institution Le Froy Medal 1890, by Elkington, London, obverse; Britannia, wearing...

6 July 2004

Lot No 924

School of Military Engineering Haynes Medal 1898, by F. Bowcher, obverse: bust of the officer fac...

6 July 2004

Lot No 925

Royal Engineers Armstrong Memorial Prize Medal 1902, by F. Bowcher, obverse: bust of Armstrong fa...

6 July 2004

Lot No 926

Royal Indian Engineering College, Coopers Hill Medal 1871-1906, crowned shield bearing the Royal Coat of Arms, with scroll below, ‘Mente Manuque’; reverse inscription in raised latters (name and post-nominals engraved), ‘Coopers Hill War Memorial Prize awarded to R. P. Mears, B.A., M.I.C.E. in perpetual memory of th...

6 July 2004

Lot No 927

Institution of Royal Engineers Prize Medal 1948, Royal Engineers coat of arms; reverse inscribed in raised letters, ‘Presented to the Most Distinguished Cadet of his term to enter the Corps of Royal Engineers’ (M. J. C. Ashmore, July 1967), 51mm., silver, extremely fine £40-60

6 July 2004

Lot No 928

Army Medical School Parkes Memorial Medal, by J.S. & A.B. Wyon, obverse: head facing right, ‘Edmund Alexander Parkes, B.1819 - D.1876’; reverse: laurel wreath, ‘Army Medical School, Hygiene; Parkes Memorial Medal’, (M. Louis Hughes, Winter Session, 1889-90), 51mm., bronze, slight edge bruise to reverse, nearly extre...

6 July 2004

Lot No 929

Army Medical School Martin Memorial Medal 1876, obverse: shield bearing coat of arms, lion above, ‘In Memory of Sir James Ranald Martin, C.B.’; reverse: ‘Army Medical School, Prize for Military Medicine, Founded 1876’ (Lieutenant G. E. Charles, I.M.S., 1901), 35mm., silver-gilt, slight edge bruising / test marks, go...

6 July 2004

Lot No 930

Army Medical School Montefiore Medal 1881, obverse: coat of arms, ‘Ex Donis N. Montefiore F.R.C.S. Schol. Mil. Med. 1881’; reverse: a scene of surgery in the field, above, an inscription in Greek (Captain C. M. French, 89 Senior Postgraduate Course), 60mm., silver, extremely fine £100-120

6 July 2004

Lot No 931

Royal Army Medical College Tulloch Prize Medal in Pathology, by Spink, London, obverse: Tulloch i...

6 July 2004

Lot No 932

North Persian Forces Medical Officers Memorial Medal 1921, obverse: snake coiled around a staff,...

6 July 2004

Lot No 933

Leishman Memorial Medal, bust of uniformed officer facing right, ‘The Leishman Memorial Medal’; reverse: wreath of thistles within which is engraved, ‘22525355 Sergeant G. Pigott, R.A.M.C.’, 51mm., bronze, good very fine £20-30

6 July 2004

Lot No 934

Royal Military College Sandhurst Prize Medal, obverse: trophy of arms; reverse: Within an oak and...

6 July 2004

Lot No 935

Royal Military College of Music Cousins Memorial Prize Medal, by Mappin & Webb, London, obverse: bust of Cousins facing right; reverse: crowned lyre, ‘Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall’ (1st Prize. Pupil F. G. Carter), 44mm., silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1953, in case of issue; another similar, obvers...

6 July 2004

Lot No 936

Royal Air Force College Cranwell, The King’s Medal, G.V.R., by Bertram Mackennal (Patrick J. K. P...

6 July 2004

Lot No 937

Royal Air Force College Cranwell, The King’s Medal, G.VI.R. , by Humphrey Paget (James M. N. Pike...

6 July 2004

Lot No 938

Royal Naval College Mathematical Prize Medal 1806, by T. Wyon Jr., laureate bust of George III right, ‘Royal Naval College, Founded by King George III MDCCCVI’; reverse: inscribed in raised letters (name and date engraved), ‘First Mathematical Prize, awarded to John Washington at an examination June 1816’, with bran...

6 July 2004

Lot No 939

Royal Naval College Mathematical Prize Medal 1820, by W. Wyon, bust of George IV left, ‘Georgius IIII D.G. Britanniarum Rex’; with ‘1820’ below bust; reverse: ‘First Mathematical Prize, Royal Naval College’, within a wreath of laurel is engraved, ‘Awarded to John Brocas Whalley Smythe Gardiner, Christmas 1828’, 57mm...

6 July 2004

Lot No 940

Royal Naval College Historical and Geographical Prize Medal 1820, by W. Wyon, bust of George IV left, ‘Georgius IIII D.G. Britanniarum Rex’; with ‘1820’ below bust; reverse: wreath of laurel, ‘Historical and Geographical Prize, Royal Naval College’, 57mm., silver, unnamed, good very fine £80-100

6 July 2004

Lot No 941

Royal Naval College Mathematical Prize 1830, by W. Wyon, bust of William IV right, ‘Gulielmus III...

6 July 2004

Lot No 942

Royal Naval College Prize for Gunnery, obverse: cannon and shot with a naval crown above, ‘Prize...

6 July 2004

Lot No 943

Greenwich Hospital School Prize Medal, bust of Nelson left by Halfhide, ‘Palmam Qvi Mervit Ferat’...

6 July 2004

Lot No 944

Pair: John Richards, Greenwich Hospital School Greenwich Hospital School Prize Medal (2), bust of Nelson left by Halfhide, ‘Palmam Qvi Mervit Ferat’; reverse: inscription in raised letters (name and year engraved), ‘Greenwich Hospital Upper School for General Information and Good Conduct, John Richards, 1853’, 35...

6 July 2004

Lot No 945

Greenwich Hospital School Prize Medal, obverse: head of Nelson left, ‘Palmam Qvi Mervit Ferat; reverse: inscription in raised letters (name and year engraved), ‘Greenwich Hospital School, to Reward Wm. Edwd. Kirby, 1858’, 27mm., silver, pierced with ring suspension, good very fine £80-100

6 July 2004

Lot No 946

Greenwich Hospital School Prize Medal, obverse: bust of Nelson left, ‘Palmam Qvi Mervit Ferat’; reverse: inscription in raised letters (name and year engraved), ‘Greenwich Hospital School, for Attainments and Good Conduct to Hy. S. Rashbrook, 1872’, 41mm., silver, lacking suspension, minor edge bruise, good very fin...

6 July 2004

Lot No 947

Greenwich Hospital School Riddle Prize Medal, obverse: bust of Nelson left, ‘Palmam Qvi Mervit Fe...

6 July 2004

Lot No 948

Royal Hospital School Greenwich Prize Medal, obverse: bust of Nelson left by Vaughton, Birmingham, ‘Palmam Qvi Mervit Ferat’; reverse: inscription in raised letters (name and year engraved), ‘Royal Hospital School Greenwich, for Attainments and Good Conduct to L. P. Gadstone, July 1916’, 41mm., silver, with milled r...

6 July 2004

Lot No 949

Royal Naval School Medal 1833, by W. Wyon, obverse: three figures in classical garb, one, a man p...

6 July 2004

Lot No 950

Royal Naval School, New Cross, Cookney Prize Medal 1854, obverse: façade of the school, in the exergue: ‘Royal Naval School, New Cross, Incorporated 1840’; reverse: a wreath of oak and laurel with crown above enclosing the inscription, ‘The Cookney Prize Medal’, around the circumference, ‘For Industry and Good Condu...

6 July 2004

Lot No 951

Royal School for Naval and Marine Officers’ Daughters Good Conduct Medal, obverse: seated figure of Britannia right, a sailing ship and lighthouse in the background; reverse: wreath of oak and laurel with naval crown above enclosing the inscription (name and year engraved), ‘Presented to Augusta M. Perry for Good Co...

6 July 2004

Lot No 952

Pangbourne Nautical College Founder’s Medal, obverse: an attractive scene of a clipper under sail; reverse: within a laurel wreath, ‘Founders’ Medal, The Nautical College Pangbourne’ (Cadet V, G. K. Webster), 45mm., silver, in F. Phillips, Aldershot fitted case of issue, extremely fine £80-100

6 July 2004

Lot No 953

Marine Society Reward of Merit (4), Britannia holding the hand of a young sailor, ‘Marine Society...

6 July 2004

Lot No 954

Chichester Training Ship Medal (2), by W. J. Taylor, London, figure of Hope standing by rocks on...

6 July 2004

Lot No 955

Arethusa & Chichester Training Ship Medal (3), figure of Hope standing by rocks on the seashore, mantle flowing behind, one hand raised, the other resting on an anchor, a sailing ship in the background, enclosed by a band inscribed, ‘England expects every man to do his duty’; reverse: inscription in raised letters (...

6 July 2004

Lot No 956

Arethusa Training Ship Medal (3), figure of Hope standing by rocks on the seashore, mantle flowin...

6 July 2004

Lot No 957

Conway Training Ship, The King’s Medal, G.V.R., by Bertram Mackennal, reverse: ‘Mercantile Marine...

6 July 2004

Lot No 958

Conway Training Ship Prize Medal, three-masted warship, in exergue; ‘H.M.S. Conway’; reverse: engraved within a wreath of laurel, ‘Hobson Cup, Xmas 1920, J. W. Holgate, Starbd. Fore’, 32mm., silver, by ‘W.J.D.’, hallmarks obscured, unmounted; H.M.S. Worcester & Conway Boat Race Medal, Neptune seated holding trident...

6 July 2004

Lot No 959

Cumberland Training Ship Prize Medal 1871, by Elkington, conjoined busts of the Marchioness and M...