SINCONA British Collection - Part 6
(British Gold and Silver Medals)
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Victoria, 1837-1901. Gilded Silver Medal n. d. (awarded 1846), 27.48 g. Charterhouse School, Award Medal. Unsigned. School arms and motto surrounded. DEO . DANTE . DEDI. Rv. Within wreath CARTHVSIANI HONORIS CAVSA. Edge engraving: H . W . SOTHEBY . LATIN HEXAMETER . 1846. 36.5 mm. Eimer -. BHM -. Vorzüglich / Extremely Fine. Prüfspur am Rand / Test mark on edge.
From the auction Baldwin's Auctions Argentum, London, November 2009, lot 402.
Charterhouse is a public school (English independent boarding school for pupils aged 13 - 18) in Godalming, Surrey, England. Founded by Thomas Sutton in 1611 on the site of the old Carthusian monastery in Charterhouse Square, Smithfield, London, it educates over thousand pupils. Charterhouse is one of the original nine English public schools reported upon by the Clarendon Commission in 1864 leading to its regulation by the Public Schools Act 1868.
The engraved name is perhaps the same H. W. Sotheby who, in 1861, published The Life and Writings of Thomas de Quincey.