A Collection of Irish Historical Medals, the Property of a Gentleman 480
named (Won by C.M. Doyne Esq, DL, Class 30, Narcissi, Spring Show 1910, Gardener Jas. Shepherd), 41mm. Extremely fine or better; in fitted case of issue
£60-£80 481
Provenance: DNW Auction 57, 19 March 2003, lot 1317 (part) Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland, a silver award medal by Hopkins & Hopkins, standing figures, rev. wreath,
Photographic Society of Ireland, a bronze award medal, unsigned [by J.A. Restall], arms in quadrilobe, rev. wreath, named (Class I, Lantern Slides, Montague Wickham, 1910), 51mm (Frazer p.199; cf. DNW 61, 1309). Good very fine £80-£100
Provenance: Noble Numismatics Auction 85A (Melbourne), 24-7 July 2007, lot 1114, J. Spencer Collection, DNW Auction M5, 17 December 2007, lot 1322.
Montague Wickham, who lived at Northwood, Middlesex, was a very able photographer, both as a technician and a picture-maker. He is known to have joined the Edinburgh Photographic Society in 1911 and received an honourable mention for his lantern slides at their annual exhibition in March 1914. A box of Wickham’s lantern slides, catalogued as ‘night views of London theatres, etc’ and taken in 1912-13, turned up at a local auction in the north-east in the late 1990s and was acquired for Newcastle Arts Centre, which mounted two exhibitions of them in 2002 and 2006
482
Grocers’ Exhibition, Belfast, a gold award medal by J.A. Restall, arms and supporters, rev. named (Opened by Sir Newton J. Moore, KCMG, 1913), hallmarked Birmingham 1913, 29mm, 18ct, 15.39g. Very fine; with clip and ring for suspension
£100-£150 Provenance: DNW Auction 61, 17 March 2004, lot 1312.
Major-General the Hon. Sir Newton James Moore, KCMG (1870-1936), b. Bunbury, Australia, for which town he served as mayor and subsequently MP, 1904-11. He enjoyed a prominent political and military career on two continents, commanding the 18th Australian Light Horse from 1901-8 and serving as the Premier of Western Australia from 1906 to 1911. Subsequently, he was agent-general in London for Western Australia and served as MP for St George’s, Hanover Square in 1918, North Islington 1918-23, and Richmond, 1924-32
483
Trinity College, Dublin, a bronze award medal, unsigned, named (Ethicis et Logicis Feliciter Excultis, Alexander O. Hardy, 1914), 39mm; Trinity College Historical Society, a bronze award medal, unsigned, named (Composition, President’s Medal, J.A.O. Fitzpatrick, Session 1902-03), edge engraved (Replica of Gold Medal Freely Given in the Great War, 1914-1919), 39mm [2]. First extremely fine, second nearly so Provenance: DNW Auction 66, 6 July 2005, lot 1115
£120-£150
484
spider’s web enveloping law books, 57mm (K 180). Extremely fine 485
Provenance: DNW Auction 58, 24-5 June 2003, lot 1427 Execution of Sir Roger Casement, 1916, an iron medal by K. Goetz, noose being tightened around Casement’s neck, rev.
£300-£400
Belfast Musical Competitions, a silver award medal by W.J. Dingley, named (Boys’ Choir (Open), M.C. Roddie, 1st, 1916), hallmarked Birmingham 1915, 35mm; Ministry of Education for Northern Ireland, Intermediate Examinations, a silver award medal by Gibson & Co, named (Middle Grade, Douglas L. Graham, First in Classics, 1924), hallmarked Birmingham 1924, 51mm [2]. First very fine, second virtually as struck and toned, very rare, with loop for suspension; in original brown fitted case by Gibson & Co, Goldsmiths, Donegall place, Belfast Provenance: J. Spencer Collection, DNW Auction M5, 17 December 2007, lot 1008
£80-£100
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