The Collection of Sheffield Tokens and Paranumismatica formed by Tim Hale

Badges, Emergency services: H.L. Brown’s Ambulance Prize, Sheffield, silver, by H.L. Brown, 29mm, hallmarked Birmingham 1908; Soldiers Comforts Depot, 1914, openwork silver and enamel, engraved (Sheffield), 30mm; C[hief] C[onstable’s] C[ivilian] C[orps], Sheffield, brass and enamel by J.R. Gaunt, 35mm; S[heffield] V[olunteer] D[efence] C[orps], brass, unsigned, 33 x 22mm; 3[rd] N[orthern] G[eneral] H[ospital], Sheffield, brass and enamel, unsigned, 32 x 30mm; Brightside Works Ambulance Corps, silver and enamel by W.J. Dingley, named (Presented by Wm. Jessop & Sons Ltd to the Winners of the Directors Ambulance Shield, 1930, H. Fox), 35 x 28mm, hallmarked Birmingham 1930, The St John Ambulance Association, nickel, named (200458 John F. Fox), 40mm, with date clasps for 1928, 1929, 1930 and 1931; Woodhouse Hospital Cup, silver and enamel by G. Usher, engraved (1928-9), 28mm, hallmarked Birmingham 1928; Sheffield Fire Brigade, nickel and enamel, unsigned, 44mm; Sheffield Military Hospital, Convoy Service, brass and enamel, stamped 28, 28mm; Sheffield City Police, helmet badges (2), 110 x 90mm, 80 x 55mm; City of Sheffield Police, nickel (2), 55 x 50mm, 55 x 32mm; South Yorkshire Police, nickel, engraved (Sheffield (C), 5-A-Side, Inter R/Up 1988), 38mm; City of Sheffield Social Welfare Dept, Rest Centres, Emergency Feeding, brass by Fattorini, 25mm; Sheffield No.3 Group of Hospitals, Nurse Training School, nickel and enamel, unsigned, 40 x 29mm; St Luke’s Hospice, Sheffield, nickel and enamel, 22mm; together with apparel buttons and badges for the Fire Brigade (2), General Ambulance Service, Police (2), Town Hall, Tramways (2), Transport (10), University O.T.C. (2), Water Works, others (15) [53]. Very fine; all with means of suspension £120-£150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Sheffield Tokens and Paranumismatica formed by Tim Hale.

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Harris Leon Brown (1843-1917), b Warsaw, watchmaker and jeweller, 65 Market place, established 1867. The Chief Constable’s Civilian Corps later morphed into the Sheffield Volunteer Defence Corps which, within two years of the outbreak of the Great War, had formed two battalions and provided 2,000 recruits for the Army. The 3rd Northern General Hospital encompassed a number of institutions across the city during the Great War, providing care for up to 1,400 wounded soldiers