Special Collections

Sold on 6 July 2004

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

James N Spencer

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№ 983

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6 July 2004

Hammer Price:
£120

Gold Tribute Medal, crossed spanner and oil-can above ‘1916-1919’ and ‘718’, with circumscription, ‘Somme Arras Ypres’; reverse: circumscription, ‘France Belgium Germany’ with engraved name, ‘T. H. Pickett’, 22mm., 9ct. gold, hallmarks for Birmingham 1919, ring suspension; Tribute Medal 1916, Britannia seated right, ‘The Duty of a Briton’; reverse: (name engraved) ‘Derby Register Argentina 1916, A. N. H. Machattie 373’, 28mm., bronze-gilt and enamel, ring suspension; Royal Fusiliers Sportsman’s Battalion Medal, obverse: twin coat-of-arms, engraved, ‘803’; reverse: inscription in cursive raised letters, ‘from Gen. Cunliffe-Owen, Oct. 1914, “God bless you”’26mm., silver, ring suspension; 264th Railway Construction Co. Royal Engineers 1914-19, R.E. badge above soldier blowing the Last Post; reverse engraved, ‘Cpl. J. Sanderson, R.E.’, 39mm., bronze, unmounted, nearly very fine and better (4) £40-60