A Collection of Irish Historical Medals, the Property of a Gentleman 486


Diocesan Board of Religious Education, Armagh, a silver badge, unsigned, back named (The Shaw Hamilton Medal, Middle, Lois Joy Lindsay, 1916), hallmarked RBRS Birmingham 1916, 42 x 23mm; Portadown Musical Festival Assoc [iation], a silver badge, back named (Girls’ Solo, 1929, H.K. Haire), hallmarked WG&S Birmingham 1928, 30 x 26mm [2]. Very fine; with rings for suspension


£40-£60 Provenance: J. Spencer Collection, DNW Auction M5, 17 December 2007, lot 1020 487


Ulster Volunteer Force, a pair of oval brass lapel buttons, stamped MC 235 and Gw 3950 AND, 28 x 21mm; together with miscellaneous items (8) [11]. Very fine


£30-£40 488 £30-£40


Provenance: DNW Auction 56, 11 December 2002, lot 735 (part) Belfast Thanksgiving Medal for Soldiers who Fought in the Great War, 1919, a white metal award medal, 33mm;


Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Stoney Memorial Medal, a matt silver award medal for Anatomy by West & Son, bust of Richard Stoney left, rev. legend, un-named, 40mm. Extremely fine Provenance: Baldwin Auction 37, 5 May 2004, lot 1740 (part).


Dr George Johnstone Stoney, FRS (1826-1911) who introduced the term 'electron' to science, was awarded the first Boyle Medal in 1899 to in recognition of his many important contributions to science, particularly in molecular physics and the kinetic theory of gases


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Ulster Medical Society, Campbell Memorial Trust, a bronze medal by Rosamond Praeger for Sir Thomas Houston on behalf of Pinches, bust of Robert Campbell left, rev. Campbell examining the leg of an infant being held on his mother’s lap, named (Thomas Houston, BA, MD, 1924), 76mm (Storer –; MJP p.19). Tiny spot of verdigris in centre of reverse, otherwise about extremely fine and very rare; a poignant award to an original trustee and close friend of Robert Campbell


£150-£200 Provenance: DNW Auction 66, 6 July 2005, lot 1154.


Robert Campbell (1866-1920), born at Carnanee, Templepatrick, co Antrim; studied at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and at Queen’s College, Belfast; graduated from the Royal University of Ireland, 1892; house surgeon at St Thomas’s Hospital, London, then resident physician at Chester Infirmary; appointed honorary surgeon at the Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, 1898, then in positions at the Belfast Royal Hospital and Royal Victoria Hospital; surgeon to the Ulster Volunteer Force in World War I. Following his death over 100 of his friends and colleagues subscribed £874 to what became the Robert Campbell Memorial Fund, administered by Thomas (later Sir Thomas) Houston (†June 1949), then president of the Ulster Medical Society and the recipient of this medal, who became chancellor of Queen’s University, Belfast. The medal, designed by the Ulster sculptress Rosamond Praeger (1867-1954), was awarded periodically for distinguished work in any branch of medical science in Ulster


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rev. named (Awarded to J.H.M. Hughes, a Graduate of the Royal Veterinary College of Ireland, for having obtained the highest marks at his final examination, July 1925), 44mm. About extremely fine


£80-£100 491


Provenance: J. Spencer Collection, DNW Auction M5, 17 December 2007, lot 1156 Veterinary Medical Association of Ireland, a silver-gilt award medal by Vaughton, arms within wreath of shamrocks,


Ost-West-Ozeanflug der Bremen [First East-West Transatlantic Flight of the Bremen], 1928, silver medals by the Prussian mint (3), conjoined busts of Fitzmaurice, Köhl and von Hünefeld right, rev. aeroplane above the waves, 36mm (FMB 211; Kaiser 927). Extremely fine or better Provenance: DNW Auction M2, 11 July 2006, lot 2731 (part).


£30-£40


The sensational flight on April 12-13, 1928, was from Baldonnel Airport, Ireland to Greenly Island on the borders of Labrador and Quebec where the plane landed on ice. The crew included the Irish Major James Fitzmaurice, as first pilot, flying a Junkers W-33, named Bremen. All three received the Freedom of the City of Dublin for their achievement


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Provenance: DNW Auction 58, 24-5 June 2003, lot 1661 Tailteann Games, 1928, a silver-gilt award medal by the Irish Jewellery Co, coronetted female bust left, rev. Celtic


£60-£80 493


Provenance: DNW Auction 56, 11 December 2002, lot 733 Irish Polled Aberdeen Angus Association, Clonakilty Show, silver award medals (2), both named (Mrs. E. O’Mahony,


1930: Mrs. H. O’Mahony, 1933), both 45mm [2]. Latter with edge knocks, otherwise both very fine www.dnw.co.uk all lots are illustrated on our website and are subject to buyers’ premium at 24% (+VAT where applicable) £150-£200


strapwork circlet bearing the arms of the four provinces of Ireland, centre engraved (Boxing First), hallmarked Dublin 1928, 51mm. Very fine


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