The Collection of Art Medals formed by Dr Edith Greenwood (†1987)

Tit-Bits Magazine, 1902, a silver Award of Merit by J.A. Restall, named (W. Newman Flower for success in Competitions, June 1903), 57mm (cf. DNW 123, 539); Franco-British Exhibition, White City, 1908, a bronze award medal by F. Bowcher for Vaughton, named (Mrs Isabella Morland King), 51mm (Allen Pt 3; BHM 3960; E 1903b); Hertfordshire and North Middlesex Competitive Musical Festival, a silver award medal by Wright & Son, named (Constance K. Newell, May 6th 1909), 39mm (cf. DNW M11, 1223) [3]. Extremely fine; second in maroon gilt-blocked case of issue, last in red case of issue £70-£90

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Art Medals formed by Dr Edith Greenwood (†1987).

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Sir Walter Newman Flower (1879-1964), publisher and author, Blandford Forum, Dorset; educ. Whitgift School, Croydon; joined Harmsworth Press 1896, moving to Cassell & Co, magazine publishers, 1906, of which he was later proprietor; commissioned Winston Churchill’s A History of English-Speaking Peoples and published Churchill’s The Second World War