BRITISH HISTORICAL MEDALS FROM VARIOUS PROPERTIES 1264 and with slight discolouration, otherwise extremely fine and very rare 1265


Provenance: DNW Auction 42, 8 September 1999, lot 1210 Thomas Reid, 1791, an oval repoussé bronze portrait medal by W. Tassie, bust left, 90 x 68mm. Has been cleaned


£40-60


George III, Preserved from Assassination, 1800, a copper medal by P. Kempson, 38mm (BHM 486); George III, Golden Jubilee, 1809, a white metal medal by T. Wyon Sr, 42mm (BHM 653) [2]. About extremely fine; second in contemporary case


£60-80


1266


British Victories, 1815, an enamelled bone box medal, unsigned, facing bust of the Duke of Wellington, rev. legend in wreath, containing 12 roundels, each side engraved with the names and dates of battles from Roleia and Vimiera, 1808, to Waterloo, 1815, two further roundels pasted into the lids of the box (Eimer –) [Lot]. Very fine and complete, extremely rare; in a contemporary shagreen case


£200-300


1267 1268


Society of Patrons of Charity Schools, 1820, a silver medal, unsigned, bust of George IV left, rev. façade of St Paul’s Cathedral, 51mm (BHM –; D & W –). Extremely fine and attractively toned, very rare


£100-150


Royal Infirmary for Children, 1820, a copper medal, 37mm; Leeds Medical School, a silver award medal by B. Wyon, named (Robert Farrer, Obstetrics, 1846), 51mm; King’s College London, Warneford Prize Medal, a copper award, named (Charles Berrell, 1864), 41mm; Charing Cross Hospital, silver award medals by B. Wyon (2), named (Henry Skelton, Materia Medica, 1867; W.J. Colborne, Midwifery, 1885), both 58mm (E 1110); King’s College London, Richard Jelf Medal, 1871, a bronze award by J.S. & A.B. Wyon, unnamed, 71mm; University of Durham College of Medicine, a silver award medal for Chemistry in the shape of a cross, named (P.P. Bedson DSc, 1886-7), 43mm; King’s College London, Robert Bentley Todd Medal for Medicine, a bronze award by J.S. Wyon, named (Frederick Burroughs Jefferiss, 1899), 76mm (BHM 2689); Victoria University of Manchester, a copper award medal, named (Percy Stocks, Medicine, 1912-13), 38mm; University of Durham, Sir Thomas Oliver Medal for Physiology Food & Nutrition, a silver award, named (James Joyce Hobbs, 1936-37), 45mm; Bristol Royal Infirmary & Bristol General Hospital, Committees Medal for General Proficiency, a silver award, named (J.D.C. Calcott), 51mm; Guy’s Hospital, Joshua W. Butterworth Medal for Five Years’ Nursing Service, named (Annie Moorcroft), 32mm (BHM 3376); St Thomas’s Hospital, Richard Mead Medal for Science, a copper award by L.C. Wyon, unnamed, 77mm[13]. Varied state; three in cases [one with a broken hinge]


£400-500 1269


George IV, Coronation, 1821, a copper medal by B. Pistrucci, 35mm (BHM 1070; E 1146a); William IV, Coronation, 1831, a copper medal by W. Wyon, 33mm (BHM 1475; E 1251) [2]. First scratched in fields, otherwise extremely fine, second about extremely fine


£80-100 1270


George IV, Coronation, 1821, a copper medal by T. Webb, bust left, rev. imperial crown on plinth, 54mm (BHM 1094). Some verdigris, otherwise extremely fine


£40-50 All lots are illustrated on our website www.dnw.co.uk


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