British Historical Medals from Various Properties 349
Preston Floral and Horticultural Society (Est. 1870), a silver award medal, unsigned, arms, rev. wreath, named (Awarded to Thomas Miller for Twenty Herbaceous Plants (Distinct), Guild Year 1882), 53mm; Golden Hill School, Leyland, 1887, a silver Trustees medal for Victoria’s Golden Jubilee by W.H. Watts, 45mm (W & E p.100 [not seen]); The Leyland Hundred Agriculture Society, a silver award medal, unsigned [by J. Pinches], un-named, 49mm [3]. First very fine, others extremely fine and in cases of issue
£80-£100 Provenance: First DNW Auction M11, 13 July 2011, lot 1456 (part); second DNW Auction 143, 12 December 2017, lot 18.
The Balshaw School at Golden Hill, named after Richard Balshaw (1725-1811), was founded, it would appear, in June 1782, not 1784 as the second medal would imply. The school, called Golden Hill, continued until the 1920s when work started on building a new school. This continues to flourish as Balshaw's Church of England High School. In 1887 the current Master was John de Pennington (Head Master from 1870 to 1899) and the current Mistress was Annie McGregor
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National Eisteddfod of Wales, Cardiff, 1883, a silver award medal by W. Spiridion, Prince’s plumes above conjoined shields, rev. seated and standing robed figures with musical instruments, un-named, 45mm. Nearly extremely fine
£40-£50
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Rothschild Foundation Prize, a copper medal, unsigned, legend, rev. wreath, named (Marks Bensky, 2nd Prize, 5650 -1890), 55mm (E 1522). With integral suspension ring, about very fine, extremely rare
£200-£300
The Jews’ Free School, founded by Moses Hart in 1732, occupied various sites in London before locating at Bell lane, Spitalfields. By the end of the 19th century, when it had some 4,000 pupils and was the largest school in Europe, one third of all Jewish children passed through its doors
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Football League, England v. Ireland Inter-League Match, 1897, a gold and enamel award medal by Vaughton, crowned arms with supporters, rev. named (J. Earp, Capn., 1897-8), hallmarked Birmingham 1897, 31mm, 9ct, 18.65g. A few small pieces of enamel missing, otherwise good very fine, rare; with loop and ring for suspension
£400-£500
Martin John ‘Jack’ Earp (b. Nottingham 1872), played as a right back for Nottingham Forest, for whom he signed as a gentleman amateur in 1889, Everton, Sheffield Wednesday and Stockport County, captaining the Wednesday side which defeated Wolverhampton Wanderers in the 1896 FA Cup Final. He abandoned his football career in early 1901 to travel to South Africa and join Baden-Powell’s South African Constabulary. At the end of the Boer War he stayed in South Africa as a policeman, retiring c. 1925.
The Football League XI defeated the Irish League XI 8-1 on 6 November 1897 at Hyde Road, the then home of Manchester City
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