Lot Archive

Lot

№ 1814

.

15 December 2005

Estimate: £100–£150

The Photographic News, silver award medals by Restall (3), seated female admiring a photographic plate held by a putto, rev. legend on tablet, one named (A.J. Taylor, Cape Town, 1898), all 38mm; South African Industrial and Arts Exhibition, Grahamstown, 1899, a silver award medal by Joseph & Sons, Port Elizabeth, façade of a building, rev. named (Awarded to A.J. Taylor, Photo Sec., Figure Studies), 49mm; Cape Town Photographic Society, award medals by J.A. Restall (4), arms over view of mountains and Table Bay, revs. named (silver: Awarded to A.J. Taylor, Union Exhibition 1910, Champion; bronze [3], Awarded to A.J. Taylor, Union Exhibition 1910, Pictorial…Coming of Age Exhibition 1911, Steroscopic…The Approaching Storm, Class I, 1914), all 45mm; a bronze award, unsigned, named (Class 38, 1st Prize Awarded to A.J. Taylor, Uitenhage Show, 22 Oct. 1913), 38mm; England, Aintree Photographic Society, a bronze award medal by Restall, similar, rev. named (Mr A.W. Taylor, Open Class, Lantern Slides, Nov. 1899), 38mm [10]. Grahamstown medal very fine and edge knocked, others about extremely fine and better, silver medals toned (£100-150)