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South Africa Medal 1854.
Engraved
3116 SERGT. H. TOLAN. 1/6TH. FOOT. Couple of edge knocks, but
otherwise EF. Replacement suspender and ribbon. Click on photo for
further views.
£500
Confirmed on the South Africa Medal roll. |
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| Crimea Medal 1854.
1 clasp Sebastapol. Engraved WM. BEECHAM R.A. Engraved naming. GF. Comes
with copies from his service papers. Click on photo for further
views.
£250
William Beecham was born near Horncastle, Lincolnshire
about 1823, and entered the Royal Artillery on 6th April 1841. He
served abroad at St Helena for ten years, before joining the Crimean
campaign (his papers confirm his entitlement to the Crimea medal with
the Sebastopol clasp). He received a silver long service and good
conduct medal, and was discharged for completion of service on 3rd May
1862. |
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CRIMEA-INDIAN MUTINY GROUP 1854-1858.
The Crimea medal with 1 clasp Sebastopol and Bailey medal brooch,
impressed JOHN McGUIRE. 44th R[worn]; the Turkish Crimea medal
un-named; and the Indian Mutiny medal with
Bailey medal brooch, impressed
838 SERGT. INSTRUCTOR OF MUSKETRY
JOHN McGUIRE 1/6 FOOT.
NVF-VF, the Crimea medal with heavy edge knocks both sides
and the Indian Mutiny medal light edge knocks. All have replacement
ribbons. The group comes with copies of McGuire's service papers (9
pages). £850
John McGuire was born in
the parish of Blacklog, Londonderry in 1836. He was a labourer by trade
and joined the 44th Foot on 19th April 1854 to serve in the Crimea
(papers confirm the Crimea medal with Sebastopol clasp). He was
transferred and posted to India with the 6th Foot on 18th September 1857
becoming a sergeant Instructor of Musketry, returning to England in
1862. He saw service again in India from 1867-1870. Despite good
conduct, he faced two courts martial during his service - in 1862
receiving a reduced sentence, and in 1871 when he was reduced to the
ranks as private (working his way back to sergeant by 1872). He was
discharged with a pension in 1876. |
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Afghanistan Medal 1878.
Engraved
1672 Pte F. Ingram 6th D.Gds.
VF. Small edge knock. Click on photo for further views.
£200
Unresearched. |
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India Medal 1895.
1 clasp Punjab Frontier 1897-98. Engraved 1533 Corpl. J.Tutty 1st Bn Ryl W Kent
Regt. VF, small scratch and slight
edge knock. Click on photo for further views.
£200
Unresearched. |
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| Queen's South Africa Medal 1899.
4 clasps Cape Colony; Tugela Heights; Relief of Ladysmith; and
Transvaal. Impressed 6368 PTE. W.TURNER. 2ND. ROYAL FUS. VF. Comes with a copy taken from the medal roll.
Click on photo for further views.
£250
The entitlement of Private William Turner to
the four clasps is confirmed in the medal roll. Against the entry is a
note "Deserted 22.4.02 placed under protective
custody under AO 129/10 11.8.10 Medals returned. Address:- c/o Mrs W.Barber, 5 Bygrove Street, Poplar". |
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Queen's South Africa Medal 1899.
4 clasps Cape Colony; Paardeberg; Driefontein; and
Transvaal. Impressed 8270 CORL. F.L.M.JONES. R.A.M.C. VF. Some
edge nocks.
Click on photo for further views.
£200
Unresearched. |
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ong Service
and Good Conduct. Impressed 22922 BATY. SGT. MAJ: C.DAVIS R.A. VF, edge worn.
Click on photo for further views.
£120
Unresearched. |
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2. Award medals |
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Birmingham Society of Arts and School of Design
[to Henry CHEADLE].
Bronze medal, engraved within a wreath "1867 Henry Cheadle for
landscapes from copies". 65mm. VF. Click on photo for further
views.
£200
Henry Cheadle (1852-1910) was a
landscape painter in oils, most of whose subjects were painted in the
Midlands and North Wales. He studied at the Birmingham Society of Arts,
receiving this medal in 1867, and was awarded a silver medal for
studies undertaken in South Kensington. He exhibited 258 works at the
Royal Society of British Artists, 105 at Birmingham City Art
Gallery, and elsewhere. |
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| FINE ARTS
EXHIBITION 1873 [to
EDMUND FREDERICK DU CANE] . Gilt medal
impressed around the rim " MAJOR E.F.
DU CANE. CB. RE. CATALOGUE No 2350 AND FOR SERVICES".70mm. Eimer 1622.
VF, with some corrosion to the reverse (top right). The medal comes in
an old green velvet lined box (not original). £200
The recipient of
this medal was Sir Edmund Frederick Du
Cane (1830–1903), prison administrator and army
officer. Du Cane joined the Royal Engineers in 1848, and after service
in Western Australia supervising the management and building of prisons,
he became involved in convict prisons in Britain, becoming
chairman of the convict prison directors, surveyor-general of prisons,
and inspector-general of military prisons. He was promoted major in July
1872, lieutenant-colonel in December 1873, and four years later brevet
colonel, and was also made CB (civil division) in 1873. In the same year
he proposed that local prisons (administered by local magistrates)
should be placed under central Government control. The resulting 1877
Prisons Act gave control of all 116 local
prisons of England and Wales to a new London-based Prison Commission, of
which Du Cane became the chairman (ODNB).
Du Cane was an accomplished painter in
water-colours, and his sketches of Peninsular War battlefields were
exhibited at the Royal Military Exhibition at Chelsea in 1890, and this
Exhibition medal was presumably in part awarded for a painting entry
('No. 2350'). Du
Cane's wider interest in the arts
dated back to his position as assistant superintendent of the foreign
side of the Great Exhibition of 1851, and assistant secretary to the
juries of awards (ODNB). |
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MASON SCIENCE COLLEGE BIRMINGHAM 1880 [to St Clair Graham BALLENDEN].
Bronze medal, engraved on the reverse "PRACTICAL INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
1897 98 St.C.G.Ballenden". 51mm. EF, with a very fine high relief portrait of Sir Josiah Mason. Eimer 1670.
£150
St Clair Graham Ballenden was born in Sedgley, Staffordshire
in 1860, the son of Dr. John Ballenden and Elizabeth (Wilson). In 1894
he married Emma Bayley, and by 1901 was practising as a surgeon, still
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| QUEEN'S COLLEGE BIRMINGHAM [to
Gerald Dudley FREER]. Bronze medal, impressed on the obverse "G.D.FREER"
and on the rim "BOTANY 1884". 46mm. EF though grubby within
the high relief. £150
Gerald Dudley Freer was born in
Stourbridge in 1866, the son of Leacroft Freer, ironmaster, and Mary
Anne (Davis). He studied medicine, and in 1905 became the first
Principal of the Straits and Federated Malay States Government Medical
School (later the King Edward VII College of Medicine). Dr Freer
continued as Principal until 1909 when he was appointed Senior Medical
Officer, Selangor. |
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| ROYAL CORNWALL POLYTECHNIC
SOCIETY 1833 [to Fanny HODGE]. Bronze medal, Second Class, with an
impressed inscription on the rim "FANNY HODGE, FOR PAINTINGS ON CHINA.
1881". 45mm. EF in original velvet lined leather covered case. Eimer
1272 £50
Interesting given the subject
of the award for painting china, but the recipient has not been traced
further. |
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| ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY [to
Leonard BLACKLER]. Silver medal, impressed on the reverse to
"LEONARD BLACKLER 1894". 39mm. Fine, but with nasty dent to face of
figure on obverse, and rim dent, and reverse scuffed.
£50
Two silver and two bronze medals were
awarded between 1893-1920
to the best candidates and second best candidates in the Oxford Local
and Cambridge Local Senior exams in physical geography and political geography.
This medal was awarded to Leonard Blackler
in December1893 for physical geography. A Leonard Blackler is
found in the 1908 Navy List, serving as Secretary on board HMS
Cormorant. |
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ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY [to Alexander FORBES]. Bronze medal,
impressed on the rim "ALEXANDER FORBES ELECTED ASSOCIATE MDCCCXXX". 68mm,
in its original gilt embossed case (hinge repaired) with deep blue
velvet lining. Eimer 1323. EF. Click on photo
for further views.
£250
The Royal Scottish Academy of Painting,
Sculpture and Architecture, was founded in 1826, and became the Royal
Scottish Academy upon the granting of its Royal Charter in 1838. This
fine medal was engraved by B.Wyon after designs by Sir Joseph Noel Paton
RSA. It was awarded retrospectively (probably to his family) in memory
of Alexander Forbes (1802-1839), one of the Academy's early Associates,
elected in 1830. Forbes was born in Aberdeen, and taught art in
Edinburgh. He quickly became a highly skilled painter of animals in
oils, becoming known as the 'Landseer of the north'. He died prematurely
aged 37, but had 64 paintings exhibited at the RSA. |
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ROYAL SCOTTISH SOCIETY OF ARTS [to John REID].
Silver medal inscribed "To John Reid F.R.S.S.A.
Engineer and Manager Edinr & Leith Gas Coy. for his Paper On water
supply, with a Description of the New Water Works designed & erected by
him at Montrose read 23rd Feby 1863 No 4066 The Silver Medal." 49mm.
Eimer1350. VF £200
Probably John Reid, gas engineer, found in the 1861 census, in Leith,
who was born about 1813 in Perth. |
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| SOCIETY OF ARTS,
ALBERT MEDAL 1863 [to Emma HODGKINSON]. Bronze medal, impressed on
the rim "EMMA HODGKINSON, FOR A DESIGN FOR CARPET. OWEN JONES
COMPETITION. 1890." 56mm. EF, but with pinch marks on reverse rim
suggesting mounting, in its original velvet lined leather box (tatty).
Eimer 1566. £100
An interesting medal in being a prize for
the Owen Jones Competition, named after the famous
architect, printer, and designer, best known for his classic
publication, the Grammar of
Ornament published 1856. Further research is needed
into the identity of Emma Hodgkinson. |
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Science and Art Department.
Queen's Medal 1856 [to
Robert Barkworth JORDAN]. Local Prize for Success in Art Awarded by
the Department of Science and Art, bronze medal, impressed around the
rim "ROBERT BARKWORTH JORDAN. WESTMINSTER DISTRICT. STAGE 5B. 1865".
55mm. VF. SOLD
Robert Barkworth Jordan was born in London about 1832. A record is found
in IGI
of a christening under his name on 28 June 1837, in Kennington, London,
the son of Thomas and Sarah Jordan. Robert was a clerk in a gas works,
and married firstly
Harriet
Emily White, on 30 August 1855 at St Martins in the Fields, by whom he
had a son Sidney Thomas and a daughter Harriet Emily. Following his
wife's death in 1859, he married Ellen Connolly Walker at Chelsea
in 1861, by whom he had at least 6 children. His family can be found in
the 1861,1871 and 1901 census. |
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Science and Art Department.
Queen's Medal 1856 [to
Matthew George TAYLOR]. Local Prize for
Success in Art Awarded by the Department of Science and Art, bronze
medal, impressed around the rim "MATTHEW G. TAYLOR. LIVERPOOL. N.D.
STAGE 3 B. 1862". 55mm. VF in original velvet lined leather case.
£50
Matthew George Taylor was born in Heyton,
Lancashire, in 1843. He married Alice Ann Phythian in 1876, and was an
architect. |
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Science and Art Department. Queen's Medal 1856
[to Ruby Winifred Levick].
National Medal for Success in Art, bronze medal, engraved around the
rim: " Ruby W. Levick, subject
19F, 1895" . 55mm.
Eimer 1511. VF, but with signs of polishing. Click on photo for further
views. £250
Ruby Winifred Levick
(1871/2–1940) was born in Llandaff, Glamorgan,
and studied at the National Art Training School (later the Royal College
of Art), South Kensington, from about 1893 to 1897. A new emphasis on
modelling, as opposed to carving, and a resurgence of interest in
small-scale sculpture, enabled women artists to make a significant
contribution to the previously male-dominated field of sculpture.
Following the award of this medal in 1895, she gained a British
Institution scholarship for modelling, and the princess of Wales
scholarship. She became extremely competent in small-scale sculpture,
decorative relief work and stained-glass, exhibited widely, and become
admired among others, by Queen Alexandra. (ODNB) |
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Science and Art Department. Queen's Medal 1856
[to Frank BELSHAW].
National Medal for Success in Art, bronze medal, engraved around the rim
"Frank Belshaw, Nottingham, Waverley St.,
Stage 15A,
1882."55mm. Eimer
1511. VF, but with knocks on obverse, and signs of polishing both sides. In its original leather
covered case, embossed with the Queens cypher, and "Science and Art
Department" £200
Frank Belshaw was born in Nottingham in 1855,
studied art at the Nottingham School of Art, and was a founder member
(and Secretary 1881) of the Nottingham Society of Artists. He won this
medal in 1882, and a silver medal, and had work exhibited at the Royal
Academy and Royal Society of British Artists. He painted landscape and
still-life subjects, but died prematurely aged 29 in 1884. |
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Science and Art Department. Queen's Medal
[to Richard John Durley]. Bronze medal
awarded for Proficiency in Science, engraved on the rim
" Richard J. Durley, Steam, 1893."
39mm. EF.
£150
Richard John Durley was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, in 1868,
the son of Richard and Elizabeth Durley. His father died in the year of
his birth, and his mother became a schoolteacher. Richard is recorded as
a marine engineer in the 1891 census, but is not found in the 1901
census. A Richard John Durley is found in the Mechanical Engineering
Department of McGill University in Canada in the early 20th century, who
in 1903 published a standard text for students "Kinematics of Machines",
but further research is needed to verify the link. |
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Tavistock
School MEDAL 1839 [to
William Henry
SMITH]. Silver medal by Wyon, on the reverse
within a wreath an engraved
inscription "OCT: KAL: QVINTII: GVLo: HENRo: SMITH: DE LONDIN: D.D. GVL:
BEAL". 50mm. Obverse with nice toning EF, on the reverse, the engraved inscription worn through polishing.
£500
Awarded to William Henry Smith (1825–1891),
later
the newsagent (of W.H.Smith fame) and politician. Born in London, the only
son of William Henry and Mary Ann Smith, he was educated at home, and
for a short period in 1839, attended Tavistock Grammar School, where he
received this silver medal. Smith hoped to go to Oxford and take holy orders, but
his father installed him in his small newsagent business in the Strand.
William took the business in a new direction setting up bookstalls at
railway stations, and by 1862 had secured bookstall rights at all the
major network stations. He made many innovations in the trade, but
leaving the day-to-day management to others, he was able to move to a career in
politics. He was elected MP for Westminster in 1868, was promoted to the
cabinet in 1877, and was given further high office in successive
governments. (ODNB) |
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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
1827 [to SIDNEY FREDERICK HARMER].
Silver medal engraved S.F.HARMER. CHEMISTRY. 1879-1880. Third
Prize". 38mm. EF.
£200
Sidney Frederic Harmer was born in
Heigham, Norwich, Norfolk, in 1862, the son of Frederic William Harmer,
wool merchant and manufacturer, and his wife, Mary Young Lyon. He was
educated at Amersham Hall, Reading, and at seventeen won a mathematical
scholarship to University College, London, where he studied natural
sciences [and where he was awarded this medal].
Harmer went to King's College,
Cambridge, where he had a distinguished career as exhibitioner, scholar,
and fellow. In 1885 he became university lecturer in advanced
invertebrate morphology, and five years later became superintendent of
the University Museum of Zoology. Harmer was appointed keeper of zoology
at the British Museum (Natural History) in 1907 and from 1919 to 1927
was its director. Throughout his life he inspired affection by his
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University of Dublin Philosophical Society [to
Caesar Litton Falkiner]. Silver medal,
inscribed on the reverse "C. Litton Falkiner ORATORY Session 1884-85".
46mm. Pierced with suspension loop. VF.
£300
Caesar Litton Falkiner
(1863-1908) was a politician, barrister and a writer on literary and
historical topics. Born in Dublin, he went to Dublin University where he
graduated BA in 1886 and proceeded MA in 1890. In 1885 he was elected
President of the college Philosophical Society (who had awarded him this
silver medal the previous year) giving a presidential address entitled
‘A new voyage to Utopia’. In 1887 Falkiner was called to the Irish bar,
and in 1888 he began to work actively on behalf of the unionist cause.
Falkiner devoted much time to the study of Irish history and literature,
publishing a number of scholarly works, but he died at the age of 45 in
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University of Dublin
Philosophical Society [to
Richard Robert Cherry]. Silver medal,
inscribed on the reverse "R.R.Cherry
Composition 1881".46mm.
Pierced with suspension loop. VF. £300
Richard Robert Cherry (1859–1923),
politician and judge, was born in Waterford,
Ireland. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin (1875–9), where he
took part in athletics, as well as being a senior moderator and double
gold medallist in mental science and history and political science. In
1881 he trained in law at the King's Inns, Dublin, and the Middle
Temple, and was called to the Irish bar. Cherry won this medal whilst
still a member of the University of Dublin Philosophical Society. He
became a leading lawyer and judge, and was appointed lord chief justice
of Ireland in 1914. (ODNB) |
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UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH [to Ernest Masson ANDERSON].
Bronze medal, engraved on the reverse "STRUCTURAL AND FIELD
GEOLOGY E. MASSON ANDERSON 1897". 52mm. VF, with edge knocks on obverse.
£75
Ernest Masson Anderson was born in Falkirk,
Scotland in 1877, the son of the Congregational Minister John Anderson
and his wife Annie. He became a well known structural geologist. He was
elected FRSE in 1920, and in 1949 received the Murchison Medal of the
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EDINBURGH [to Alfred Alexander MURRAY]. A group of three bronze medals, all
impressed to Alfred A. Murray, for "RHETORIC 1879-80" "MORAL PHILOSOPHY,
PRIVATE STUDY 1881-82" "POLITICAL ECONOMY 1884.85". All EF with
occasional rim knocks, one in its original complete velvet lined leather
case, and the other two in the lower halves of cases.
£100
Alfred Alexander Murray was born in
Edinburgh in 1863, the son of a law clerk Joseph Anderson and his wife
Margaret. In 1891 he is recorded in the census as a law agent & lawyer's
managing clerk, and by 1901 as writer to HM Signet. In 1901 he is living
in Edinburgh with his wife Mary, and with a Norwegian servant Gunda
Jorgenson. The latter is probably in some way relevant as in 1902 he
gave a lecture to the Edinburgh Photographic Society entitled "By
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UNIVERSITY OF
LONDON [to THOMAS MORTON]. Silver medal engraved "SESSSION 1834-35
TO THOMAS MORTON - ANATOMY - THIRD PRIZE".45mm. EF with a couple of edge
knocks.
£300
Thomas Morton, one of the most
able surgeons of his time, was was born in 1813 in Newcastle upon Tyne,
the youngest son of Joseph Morton, a master mariner. On the
completion of an apprenticeship at the Newcastle upon Tyne Infirmary in
1832, he entered University College, London. Here he was awarded four
prizes: two gold medals respectively for surgery and midwifery, and two
silver medals for anatomy (this medal) and practical anatomy. Morton was
admitted a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1835, and was
appointed house surgeon at the North London (later University College)
Hospital. In 1842 he became assistant surgeon, and although was made
full surgeon, he was not given the professorship he sought. Finding
increasing private practice no substitute for the hospital work he
desired, Morton's depression continued. This, combined with an obsessive
concern about drinking, led to his death by suicide, by taking prussic
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WORSHIPFUL COMPANY
OF MUSICIANS OF LONDON [to CARL HENTSCHEL]. Full sized and miniature
silver medals in presentation box inscribed "PRESENTED TO CARL HENTSCHEL
ESQ. BY THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF MUSICIANS 31ST OCTOBER 1905". The full
sized medal (55mm) is engraved around the rim "CARL HENTSCHEL ESQ.
1905". Both EF. The case has scuff marks around the edges and wear to
the base.
£250
Carl Hentschel was born
in Lodz, Russia in1864, settled in England, and married Bertha Posner in
1889. Their daughter Irene married the theatre critic and writer Ivor
John Carnegie Brown, and another daughter, Olga, married the novelist
William Pett Ridge. Hentschel was a photo-engraver by trade, and was a
founder member of the Playgoer's Club established in 1884. His friend
Jerome K. Jerome a co-founder of the Club, later
immortalised Hentschel as "Harris" in Three Men in a Boat. |
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