British Historical Medals from the collection formed by the late Michael Ewing

Magdalen College Boat Club, Oxford, a copper award medal, named (Pairs 1870, C.C. Knollys Bow, W.A. Clarke Stroke), 51mm; The People’s Palace Apprentices Exhibition, London, 1887, a copper award medal by J.A. Restall, named (G.H.F. Prynne), 45mm (cf. DNW 86, 91); The Answers Medal, c. 1890, a bronze award, ‘Presented by the Proprietors of Answers’, 68mm (cf. DNW 105, 1107); International Exhibition of Mining & Metallurgy, London, 1890, a gilt white metal award medal, unsigned, named (Awarded to Phoenix & West Phoenix United Mines), 45mm; Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, 1910, a bronze award medal by B. Mackennal, named (Theodora Margaret Jackson, Intermediate Examinations 1913, French), 55mm (BHM 4004; E 1917); Royal Academy of Arts, 1910, a bronze award medal by T. Brock, named (Violet Mary Barnewall, for a Painting from Still Life, Dec. 10, 1913), 55mm (BHM 4017; E 1916) [6]. Very fine; last two in cases of issue £70-90

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, British Historical Medals from the collection formed by the late Michael Ewing.

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Violet Mary Barnewall (b. Pontefract, 1891), artist, stained-glass designer and follower of the Arts and Crafts movement, lived at Harrogate