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Local, LONDON, University College, a silver award medal, unsigned [after W. Wyon], Minerva seated left, holding wreath, rev. wreath, named (D.N. Nabarro Physiology, 1892-3, Second Prize), 37mm, 31.90g; University of London, a similar medal, rev. named (Session 1835-36, Henry Weeks Anatomy Third Prize), 44mm, 46.80g; together with later University of London silver award medals for Athletics and Boxing [4]. Very fine or better £80-£100
Hammer Price: £130
Local, LONDON, Westminster Technical Institute, Burdett-Coutts Medal, 1895, a silver award by O. Hale for Restall, bust of Baroness Burdett-Coutts left, rev. crowned arms and supporters, cartouche below, named (Presented to Frank Hewish Melhuish for Carriage Building, 1895), 77mm, 254g (cf. DNW 47, 987). Sometime cleaned, good very fine £100-£120
Hammer Price: £850
Local, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, Nottingham School of Art, Mayor’s Prize Medal, a silver award, unsigned, shield, rev. named (Presented by Sir James Oldknow Knt, Mayor of Nottingham to John M. Carr a Student of the School of Art for Excellence of Design as Applicable to Manufactures), 88mm, 182.00g. Nearly extremely fine, rare £80-£100
Local, OXFORDSHIRE, Oxford Gymnasium, a silver award medal, unsigned, building, rev. legend in wreath, named (1870, G.G. Monck BNC), 52mm 62.60g; Magdalen College, Oxford, a silver award medal, named (Magd. Coll. Rifle Challenge Cup 1864 Lieut J.C. Camble), 52mm, 64.20g [2]. Very fine to extremely fine £80-£100
Hammer Price: £140
Local, OXFORDSHIRE, Oxford University Athletic Club, a silver award medal, unsigned, arms, rev. wreath, named (1900 3 Miles 3rd H.A. Buck), 60mm, 108.00g. Graze on reverse rim, otherwise extremely fine and toned £60-£80
Hammer Price: £100
Local, OXFORDSHIRE, Oxford University Boat Club, Challenge Prize Medal, Four Oars, a silver award, unsigned, arms over crossed oars, rev. legend in wreath, edge named (T.H. Kelly Nov. 1862), 51mm, 61.70g. Very fine £80-£100
Hammer Price: £75
Local, OXFORDSHIRE, Oxford University Boat Club, Challenge Prize Medal, Oars, a silver award, unsigned, arms over crossed oars, rev. legend in wreath, edge named (H.P. Senhouse 2nd OUBC Pair Oars, June 1865), 51mm, 61.80g. Extremely fine, rare £100-£120
Hammer Price: £150
Local, RUTLAND, Uppingham College, vessica-shaped silver award medals (3), unsigned (by A. Wyon), Archdeacon Robert Johnson at desk, revs. named (W.F. Raunsley 1864), (W.E. Urwick, 1883), 68 x 50mm and 56 x 46mm, 62.50g, 46.20g; a similar oval medal, named (W.F. Raunsley), 52 x 40mm, 40.50g [3]. Very fine or better, last with integral suspension £80-£100
Hammer Price: £200
Local, RUTLAND, Uppingham College, silver award medals (3), unsigned (by A. Wyon), Archdeacon Robert Johnson at desk, revs. For Batting, edge named (K.B. Harper 1909), For Bowling, edge named (J.G. Stephen 1913), For Fielding, edge named (P.G. Upcher 1927), all 51mm, 75.90g, 74.20g, 70.90g [3]. Very fine to extremely fine £100-£120
Hammer Price: £220
Local, STAFFORDSHIRE, Meertown School, Newport, c. 1800 (?), a silver award medal, unsigned, altar between plants, rev. wreath, named (Mrs Eginton to Jane Naegeli), 38mm, 17.03g. Very fine and extremely rare £60-£80
Local, SUSSEX, Miss Gill’s School, Brunswick Square, Brighton, a silver Prize of Honor medal by T. Ottley, legend in wreath, rev. legend, named (Emma Hudson, Midsr 1860), 51mm, 44.90g. Some hairlining, extremely fine and attractively toned £80-100
Hammer Price: £90
Local, SUSSEX, Proprietary Grammar and Commercial School, Brighton, a silver award medal, unsigned, arms, rev. wreath, named (Midsummer Examination 1869, Presented by C.S. Hannington Esq to W. Stanford); Brighton Grammar School, a similar silver-gilt award medal, named (C.A. Crook, Punctuality, Christmas 1885), both 51mm, 59g, 60.5g [2]. Good fine and extremely fine £60-£80
Hammer Price: £60
Local, SUSSEX, Proprietary School, Brighton, 1836, Præpositors Prize, a silver award medal, unsigned, female figure with lamp kneeling left, rev. named (William Henry Wilson, 1868), Good Conduct Medal, similar, named (Truth and Honour, William English Midsummer 1873), both 44mm, 42.5g, 42.6g [2]. Good very fine £40-£60
Local, WARWICKSHIRE, Atherstone Grammar School, a silver award medal by A. Wyon, arms, rev. legend, named (Awarded to H.G. Atkins 1888); King’s Grammar School, Warwick, founded 1546, a silver award medal, unsigned, named (Samuelo Henrico Wilson, MDCCCLXXVIII), both 51mm, 69.70g, 55.20g [2]. Extremely fine or nearly so, both with prooflike fields, scarce £80-£100
Local, WARWICKSHIRE, Birmingham and Edgbaston Proprietary School, a silver award medal, head of Minerva right, wearing plumed helmet, rev. inscription, edge named (Thomas Turner Slaney in Lit. Humanioribus), 58mm, 93.10g (D & W p.207, No. 43). Good very fine or better, scarce £80-£100
Hammer Price: £480
Local, WARWICKSHIRE, Birmingham Municipal School of Art, Chamberlain Medal, a silver award by J. Moore, bust right, rev. view of the school, edge named (Reginald Bowley, 1935), 60mm, 95.50g (BHM 3146; E 1699). Extremely fine or better, attractively toned £60-£80
Hammer Price: £300
Local, WARWICKSHIRE, Leamington College, silver award medals (2) by G.R. Collins, façade of the college, rev. named (Presented by Henry Jephson M.D. President of Leamington College to John R. Maunsell for Proficiency in Mathematics Xmas 1848), 73mm, 150.2g; unsigned, named (Robert Oscar Butler Nicholson 1886), 58mm, 74.10g [2]. Good fine or better, first with some edge knocks £120-£150
Local, YORKSHIRE, Ackworth School, Pontefract, a silver award medal by J. Moore, bust of John Fothergill right, rev. named (Awarded to C.P. Doubleday of Ackworth School, Ackworth Exhibition Class 1 & 2, 6mo 27 1879), 52mm, 60.70g (cf. BHM 3058); West Grove Academy, Halifax, a silver award medal for Writing, edge named (Won by Master C.H. Thomson December 1879...T.W. Field Principal), 44mm, 43.50g [2]. Extremely fine £70-£90
Hammer Price: £260
Local, YORKSHIRE, Huddersfield College, engraved silver award medals by J. Moore (3), arms and supporters (2), revs. named (1st Classical Medal Presented by the Rt Hon The Marquis of Ripon to J.H. Hastings, Midsr. 1874), (2nd Classical Medal…to E.B. Hastings, Midsr. 1875); frontal elevation of the College, rev. named (French Medal Presented by Wm. Mallinson Esq to J.H. Hastings, Midsr. 1874), all hallmarked Birmingham 1873, first 71mm, others 66mm, total 142.72g [3]. Virtually as struck,...
Local, YORKSHIRE, Scarborough School Board, c. 1895, award medals (3), unsigned (by the Birmingham Mint), in silver, gilt-bronze, and bronze, revs. named (B. Benton), all 44mm, silver 47g [3]. Extremely fine or nearly so; all cased as issued £50-£70
Hammer Price: £160
Local, YORKSHIRE, Thorp Arch Seminary, Wetherby, a silver award medal, unsigned, standing robed female standing left, giving wreath to winged cherub, rev. wreath, named (J.Button the best French Scholar, Decbr. 1800), 42mm (BHM –; E –; cf. BNJ 1938, p.183; cf. DNW 283, 1269). Good fine and very rare £80-£100
Hammer Price: £80
Local, YORKSHIRE, Thorp Arch Seminary, Wetherby, a silver award medal, unsigned, seated figure of Britannia attended by robed female and eight infant genii, rev. wreath, named (To John Matthews for Commercial Learning June 1811), 53mm, 57.50g (BHM –; E –; cf. BNJ 1938, p.183). Reverse hairlined, otherwise about extremely fine and very rare £100-£150
Local, YORKSHIRE, Wesley College, Sheffield, an engraved silver award medal, unsigned (by G. Unite), façade of school, rev. named (Presented to Joseph H. Heeley for Proficiency in Classics, Mathematics and English, June 20th 1871), 54mm, 49.50g. Very fine and very rare £100-£120
Local, WALES, Cardiff Science and Art School, Town Prize Medal, silver awards (2), unsigned, arms in wreath, rev. legend, edge named (First Prize in Art, Emma E. South, 1873) and (Ernest G. Venn for Science 1880), 52mm, 29mm, 55.00g, 11.80g [2]. Both extremely fine and toned, first with suspension loop and ribbon £50-£70
Hammer Price: £120
Miscellaneous, Grosvenor School, Nottingham, a silver award medal, unsigned, named (Presented to H.E. Allen for his Exemplary Conduct during the Year 1882), 40mm, 34.50g; Mrs Newcomen’s Schools, Southwark, 1881, a silver award medal, unsigned [by J. Pinches], rev. named (Presented to Louisa Ada Fish for General Proficiency and Good Conduct, 1899), 51mm, 72.00g (cf. DNW M1, 1362) [2]. Very fine or better, first with integral suspension bar £70-£90
Miscellaneous, Haileybury College, a silver award medal, unsigned, arms, rev. wreath, named (Gymnastics 2nd Prize J. de C. Smith 1911), 44mm, 47.30g; Wellington College, a silver award medal by J.S. & A.B. Wyon, arms, rev. wreath, named (A.C O’Connor March 10th 1910, Represented at Aldershot March 18th 1910), 38mm, 37.90g; together with a later silver medal from Loughborough College [3]. Very fine to extremely fine £60-£80
Miscellaneous, Elizabeth College, Guernsey, a silver award medal by J. Fenton, swimmers by river, rev. named (1933 Senior Diving H. Sandeman), hallmarked BIrmingham 1933, 38mm, 24.10g; together with other 20th century silver medals (8), from London, Thetford, Warwick etc., mostly hallmarked (approx. 225g) [9]. Very fine or better £120-£150
Hammer Price: £190
Miscellaneous, Silver award medals (7), from Birmingham University, Cheltenham College, City and Guilds Engineering College, Colchester Schools, Eastbourne College, Hereford Cathedral School, Minchinhampton (Gloucestershire) Schools, all early 20th century, all 38mm, approx 170g total [7]. Very fine to extremely fine £80-£100
Hammer Price: £110
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