Photography, Amateur Photographic Society, Bradford, a bronze award medal, unsigned, arms, rev. wreath, named (Transparencies, W.S. Smith, 1887), 41mm; Bootle Photographic Society, a bronze award medal, unsigned, arms, rev. wreath, named (1914, Class III, for exhibit ‘Curiosity’, Won by Geo. Hazel), 39mm; Borough of Oldham, a bronze award medal, unsigned, arms, rev. wreath, named (Photographic Exhibition, Robinson & Thompson, 1888), 45mm; Durham City Camera Club, a bronze award medal for Excellence by J. Moore for T. Brewster, Durham, arms above tablet, rev. sprig of palm, named (C.E. Cowper, Nov. 1897), 33mm; International Photographic Exhibition, Leeds, a bronze medal, unsigned, classical male head right, radiant star around, rev. arms of the City, municipal art gallery above, edge named (Waterlow & Sons Limited, Woodbury type, Leeds, 1891), 45mm; Stoneycroft Camera Club, a bronze award medal, unsigned, arms, rev. camera, wreath and tablet, named (1899 Club Excursions, 2nd Prize, W.E. Inston), 38mm; Photography, a bronze award medal by J.A. Restall for Photography magazine, seated figure with camera, curtain at left, rev. named (Medal for Interiors, won by Adolph W. Beer, Liverpool, 1889), 39mm [7]. Durham medal rather dirty, otherwise very fine and better (£70-100)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, British Medals from the Collection of James Spencer.

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Waterlow & Sons Ltd, stamp and banknote printers, evolved in 1877 out of the split in the family firm founded by James Waterlow (†1876). The assets of the company were acquired by De La Rue in 1960. Leeds medal only illustrated