BRITISH MEDALS FROM OTHER PROPERTIES 1371
Southampton Yacht Club, a silver award medal, unsigned, arms and supporters, rev. wreath, named (Don Juan, July 16th, 1850), 50mm. Good very fine, toned, rare; with original clip, ring and steel bar suspender £80-100
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Great Exhibition, Hyde Park, 1851, Prize medal, a bronze award by W. and L.C. Wyon, conjoined busts of Victoria and Prince Albert left, tridents and dolphins in field,
rev.Britannia placing a wreath on kneeling figure of Industry, attended by supporters representing the continents, edge named (Captain Jerningham, R.N., Class VIII), 77mm (Allen A25; BHM 2462; E 1456).Some minor surface marks, otherwise about extremely fine £250-300
Capt Arthur William Jerningham, Portsmouth, commander of HMS Excellent, invented a ‘model of an anchor to be fired from a mortar of 5.5 inch bore…to carry a two-inch Manilla line out 200 yards to sea, for the purpose of hauling a life-boat off through the surf when the wind is on shore’
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Great Exhibition, Hyde Park, 1851, For Services, a copper award medal by W. Wyon, bust of Prince Albert left, rev. wreath, edge named (Stephen Lewis), 48mm (Allen A50; BHM 2465; E 1458).Extremely fine
£60-80
Great Exhibition, Hyde Park, 1851, Exhibitor’s medal, in copper, by W. Wyon, bust of Prince Albert left, rev. globe in wreath, edge impressed (United Kingdom, Class 8, No. 41), 44mm (Allen A55; BHM 2463; E 1459); Marriage of the Princess Royal to Prince Frederick of Prussia, 1858, a copper medal by L.C. Wyon for Hunt & Roskell, 63mm (W & E 758.1; BHM 2627; E 1517); Marriage of the Prince of Wales and Princess Alexandra, 1863, a copper medal by L.C. Wyon for Hunt & Roskell, 64mm (W & E 948.1; BHM 2770; E 1562); Colonial and Indian Exhibition, London, 1886, a bronze medal by L.C. Wyon for Heaton, 52mm (W & E 1514.1; BHM 3209; E 1725); End of the South African War, 1900, a bronze medal by E. Fuchs, 70mm(BHM3679; E 1850a); together with other miscellaneous base metal medals (10), including Baden-Powell, Kitchener, etc [15]. Several very fine, but two lacquered
£120-150
The recipient of the first medal was John Elliott, Southampton, who exhibited his invention of a deodorizing water-closet, models of farm buildings and cottages for labourers and clay tubes for building roofs and walls of same
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Great Exhibition, Hyde Park, 1851, Exhibitor’s medal, in copper, by W. Wyon, from the same dies as previous, edge impressed (United Kingdom, Classes 12 & 15, No. 20), 44mm (Allen A55; BHM 2463; E 1459); Opening of Crystal Palace, 1854, a white metal medal by Allen & Moore, 51mm (Allen 20; BHM 2546); Naval & Military Exhibition, Crystal Palace, 1901, a white metal medal, unsigned, 38mm (Allen 5; BHM 3734; E 1858); National Challenge Show of Cage Birds, Crystal Palace, a bronze award medal, unsigned [by Alexander Clark Co Ltd], un-named, 45mm (cf. Allen 1938, 5); other Crystal Palace-related medals in base metal (6) [10]. First veryfine, others better
£80-100 The recipient of the first medal was Brett Bros & Co, Wood street, London, designers of cloths and ’fancy trouserings’ These lots are illustrated on our web site
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