The Preston-Morley Buckinghamshire Collection: Commemorative Medals

THE PRESTON-MORLEY BUCKINGHAMSHIRE COLLECTION, Opening of the New Licensed Victuallers’ School, Slough, 1921, a gold medal, unsigned, frontal elevation of the old Royal Hotel building, rev. legend, named (Arthur Spear), hallmarked jm [remainder of hallmark indistinct], 29mm, 14.04g. About extremely fine, very rare; with scroll suspension, clip and ring for suspension (£60-80)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Preston-Morley Buckinghamshire Collection: Commemorative Medals.

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Provenance:
Glendining Auction, 6 June 1990, lot 250 (part);
bt H. Simmons July 1990.

The Licensed Victuallers’ School was founded in 1802, and houses were bought for the school in Kennington Lane, London, in 1837. In 1920 the LVS took over the abandoned Orphan Asylum buildings in Slough, which were rebuilt and opened by HRH Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, on 26 October 1921. The original Royal Hotel buildings were demolished in 1938 after the new school, opened by the late Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, was built. Further details are sold with the lot. For pre-1920 medals associated with the School, see lot 745