Photography, Bristol & West of England Amateur Photographic Association, bronze award medals (2), first by Lavars, Bristol, arms and supporters, revs. wreath, international exhibition, edge named (George Smith, Sciopticon Co, 1883-4), second rev. named (Lantern Slides, 1925, Awarded to Florence Wild), both 55mm (cf. Simmons FPL 13, 46b); Plymouth Photographic Society (Founded 1894), a bronze award medal by Vaughton, arms, named (Figure Subject, Ethel H. Petty, 1904), rev. winged female flying over a building, photographic implements set outside, 44mm; Southsea Amateur Photographic Society, Annual Exhibition, a bronze award medal by A.H. Darby, arms of Portsmouth, named (Figure Class, Awarded to J.J. Armitage), rev. camera on tripod within wreath, 44mm [4]. First very fine, others better (£40-60)

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

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Four other Bristol-related photographic medals awarded to Mrs Florence Wild between 1912 and 1930 were in Simmons FPL 13. Reverses of third and fourth only illustrated