Catalog - SINCONA Auction 96

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Victoria, 1837-1901. Silver Medal 1853, 92.42 g. Birmingham and Midland Counties Exhibition, Award Medal. Unsigned. Farm poultry on a field. Rv. Engraving within wreath. To: The Rt. Hon: the Earl of Dartmouth Dorking Fowl. (White.) 1st. Prize Clafs 7. 1853. BIRMINGHAM AND MIDLAND COUNTIES EXHIBITION ESTABLISHED 1849. Plain edge. 64.5 mm. Eimer -. BHM -. Fast vorzüglich / About Extremely Fine. Feine Patina / Nicely toned. Kleine Kratzer / Small scratches.

Purchased from Spink Numismatic Circular, London, February 2001, lot CNS460.

The Birmingham and Midland Counties Exhibition, established in 1849, was a significant industrial and cultural event held in Birmingham. It is often regarded as a precursor to the Great Exhibition of 1851 at the Crystal Palace. The exhibition attracted over 100,000 visitors, including notable figures such as Charles Darwin, Robert Stephenson, and Prince Albert. The success of the 1849 exhibition led to the construction of Bingley Hall in 1850, the first purpose-built exhibition hall in Great Britain, which replaced the temporary structure.

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Victoria, 1837-1901. Silver Medal 1854, 30.73 g. Crimean War Medal. By W. Wyon. Bust, diademed. VICTORIA REGINA 1854. Rv. Victory flying and crowning Roman-style soldier. CRIMEA. Plain edge. 36.2 mm. Eimer -. BHM -. Gutes sehr schön / Good Very Fine. Originalhenkel entfernt / Original loop removed.

Purchased from Teutoburger Münzauktion und Handel, Borgholzhausen, March 2001, lot 1497.

The Crimean War was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between the Russian Empire and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom, and Sardinia-Piemont. Geopolitical causes of the war included the decline of the Ottoman Empire (the "Eastern Question"), the expansion of Russia in the preceding Russo-Ottoman Wars, and the British and French preference to preserve the Ottoman Empire to maintain the balance of power in the Concert of Europe.

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Victoria, 1837-1901. Silver Medal 1858, 56.98 g. Marriage of Princess Victoria to Frederick William of Prussia. By W. Kullrich. Busts facing each other in two oval frames: FRID . GVIL . BORVSS . PRINC . REG. and VICTORIA BRIT . PRINC . REGIA. upon a platform decorated with their royal shields; between stands a winged female figure, her arms outstretched. D . XXV JANVARII MDCCCLVIII. Rv. VICTORIA and ALBERT, standing in a galley together and are welcomed by Germania. SALVE. Plain edge. 53.2 mm. Eimer 1518. BHM 2523. Sommer K 23. Mues/Olding 771. Vorzüglich / Extremely Fine. Leicht gereinigt / Lightly cleaned.

Victoria, Princess Royal (21 November 1840 - 5 August 1901) was the eldest child of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and was appointed Princess Royal in 1841. As the eldest child of the British monarch, she was briefly heir presumptive until the birth of her younger brother, the future Edward VII.

Frederick III (8 October 1831 - 15 June 1888) was German Emperor and King of Prussia for ninety-nine days between March and his death in June 1888, during the Year of the Three Emperors. Victoria and Frederick were married on 25 January 1858 in the Chapel Royal of St. James's Palace, London. They were the parents of Wilhelm II, the last German Emperor.

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Victoria, 1837-1901. Silver Medal 1861, 89.68 g. David Wilkie, Art Union of London, Laudatory medal. By L. Wyon. Bust, draped. SIR DAVID WILKIE R . A. Rv. A detail from Wilkie's painting The Village Politicians. In exergue: ART-UNION OF LONDON 1861. Plain edge. 55 mm. Eimer 1549. BHM 2704. Vorzüglich / Extremely Fine. Feine Patina / Nicely toned.

Purchased from Spink Numismatic Circular, London, June 2001, lot CM0155.

Sir David Wilkie (18 November 1785 - 1 June 1841) was a Scottish painter, especially known for his genre scenes. He painted successfully in a wide variety of genres, including historical scenes, portraits, including formal royal ones, and scenes from his travels to Europe and the Middle East.

His main base was in London, but he died and was buried at sea, off Gibraltar, returning from his first trip to the Middle East. He was sometimes known as the "people's painter". A list of the exceptionally numerous and excellent engravings from his pictures will be found in "The Art Union - the most important British 19th-century magazine on art - for January 1840".

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Victoria, 1837-1901. Silver Medal 1862, 36.07 g. International Exhibition. By C. Schnitzspahn and J. Wiener. Bust, bare. TO THE COMMEMORATION OF HIS LATE R . H . THE PRINCE CONSORT ALBERT. Rv. INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION 1862. In exergue: STAMPED IN THE BUILDING BY h . UHLHORN OF GREVENBROICH . PRUSSIA. Plain edge. 41.3 mm. Eimer 1556. BHM 2743. Augustin 121. Vorzüglich / Extremely Fine. Leicht berieben / Slightly polished.

From the auction Gerhard Hirsch Nachf. 236, Munich, September 2004, lot 3747.

The International Exhibition of 1862, officially the London International Exhibition of Industry and Art, also known as the Great London Exposition, was a world's fair held from 1 May to 1 November 1862 in South Kensington, London, England. The site now houses museums including the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum.

Prince Albert (1819 - 1861), Victoria's husband and son of Duke Ernst I of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, was the initiator of the exhibition. The medal was struck during the exhibition on a minting machine from Uhlhorn, Grevenbroich.

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Victoria, 1837-1901. Silver Medal 1863, 115.22 g. Marriage of the Prince of Wales to Princess Alexandra. By L. C. Wyon. Busts, conjoined. ALBERT EDWARD PRINCE OF WALES . ALEXANDRA PRINCESS OF DENMARK. Rv. Royal arms of the couple; Prince's plumes and coronet above; motto below. MARCH 10 1863. Plain edge. 63.3 mm. Eimer 1562a. BHM 2770. Vorzüglich / Extremely Fine. Im Originaletui / In original box.

Purchased from Spink, London, June 2001, lot CM0157.

The wedding of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII), and Princess Alexandra of Denmark (later Queen Alexandra) took place on 10 March 1863 at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. It was the first royal wedding to take place at St. George's, and the last wedding of a Prince of Wales until Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer's 1981 wedding.

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Victoria, 1837-1901. Gold Medal 1863 (awarded 1885), 113.35 g. Prince of Wales. Society of Arts President's Medal. By L. C. Wyon. Bust, bare. ALBERT EDWARD PRINCE OF WALES PRESIDENT MDCCCLXIII. Rv. SOCIETY OF ARTS MANUFACTURES AND COMMERCE within wreath. FOUNDED 1754 . INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER 1847. Edge engraving: INTERNATIONAL INVENTIONS EXHIBITION 1885 . BROADWOOD & SONS, FOR PIANOS. 56.4 mm. Eimer 1567. BHM 2794. Vorzüglich / Extremely Fine. Im Originaletui / In original box. Kleine Kratzer / Small scratches.

From the auction SINCONA 43, Zurich, October 2017, lot 3399.
From the auction Künker 258, Osnabrück, January 2015, lot 606.

Founded in 1754 by William Shipley as the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, it was granted a Royal Charter in 1847, and the right to use the term "Royal" in its name by King Edward VII in 1908.

This medal was awarded to John Broadwood & Sons - an English piano manufacturer until today - at the International Inventions Exhibition in 1885.

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Victoria, 1837-1901. Gold Medal 1864 (awarded 1932), 32.57 g. St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Kirkes Award Medal. By J. S. and A. B. Wyon. Bust. WILLIAM SENHOUSE KIRKES M. D. DIED 1864. Rv. Engraving: P. H. R. GHEY 1932 in wreath. ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSP: FOR CLINICAL MEDICINE. Plain edge. 38.5 mm. Eimer -. BHM 2830 (unlisted in gold). Vorzüglich / Extremely Fine. Im Originaletui / In original box.

Purchased from Spink Numismatic Circular, London, March 2005, lot 16.

St. Bartholomew's Hospital, commonly known as Barts, is a teaching hospital located in the City of London. It was founded in 1123 by Rahere, and is currently run by Barts Health NHS Trust.

William Senhouse Kirkes (21 January 1822 - 8 December 1864) was an English physiologist noted for his reference work "Kirkes' Physiology" which first appeared in 1848. Kirkes' main research field was cardiology and vascular disease, and he first described embolism from vegetations in infective endocarditis in 1852. In 1855, he published a paper on apoplexy in Bright's disease, in which he singled out the role played by increased intra-arterial tension in arterial disease.

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Victoria, 1837-1901. Silver Medal 1865, 117.08 g. 50th Anniversary of the Battle at Waterloo. By S. De Vries. Woman holding staff with cap of liberty on one hand receiving wreath from Victory on the other; at feet lion war prizes. EENDRAGT MAAKT MAGT. In exergue: 1815-1865. Rv. PR . V . ORANJE . SAXEN - WEYMAR . PERPONCHER . BRUNSWYK - OELS . UXBRIDGE . WELLINGTON . PICTON BÜLOW . ZIETHEN . BLÜCHER. Surrounded by wreath including the coat of arms of the allied powers. Plain edge. 70.4 mm. Eimer -. BHM -. Wurzbach/T. 9243. Selten / Rare. Vorzüglich-FDC / About Uncirculated.

From the auction Leipziger Münzhandlung 33, Leipzig, June 2003, lot 3208.

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Victoria, 1837-1901. Silver Medal n. d. (after 1867), 146.92 g. United Hospitals Athletic Club, Award Medal. Unsigned, by Mappin & Webb. Two figures in cartouche of 11 shields. UNITED HOSPITALS ATHLETIC CLUB LONDON. Rv. In wreath. WON BY. Plain edge. 70.1 mm. Eimer -. BHM -. Vorzüglich / Extremely Fine. Feine Patina / Nicely toned.

From the auction Gerhard Hirsch Nachf. 227, Munich, May 2003, lot 2005.

The United Hospitals Athletics Club is a historic athletics club that used to host the annual United Hospitals athletics competition. Since the disbanding of the club, London Universities and Colleges Athletics has organised the competition within the LUCA Indoor Championships. The competition has been held since 1867.

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Victoria, 1837-1901. Gold Medal n. d. (awarded 1868), 23.67 g. The Grey Institute, Award Medal. Unsigned. Arms and motto in centre. GREY INSTITUTE . PORT ELIZABETH CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Rv. PRAEMIUM BIENNALE / PUERO OPTIME MERITO CONDISCIPULORUM DUCI. Engraving: 1868 , HARRY JOHNSON. Plain edge. 36.5 mm. Eimer -. BHM -. Gutes sehr schön / Good Very Fine.

From the auction Baldwin's of St James's Coinex Auction, London, September 2017, lot 366.

Grey High School is a semi-private English-medium high school (grades 8 to 12) for boys situated in the suburb of Mill Park in Gqeberha (formerly Port Elizabeth) in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is one of the top sporting schools in the country, with consistently strong academics and an extensive culture of musical performance, and is one of the oldest schools in South Africa. It was founded as The Grey Institute by John Paterson and named after Sir George Grey, Governor of the Cape Colony for the period 5 December 1854 - 15 August 1861, who was the benefactor for the original school to be constructed adjacent to the Donkin Reserve in Central, Port Elizabeth.

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Victoria, 1837-1901. Silver Medal 1870, 35.95 g. Sir John Cass Foundation, Reward of Merit. Unsigned. Engraving in ten lines: 1870 REWARD of MERIT Presented by the Trustees of the School on the Foundation of SIR JOHN CASS KNT. HENRY GRIFFIN Aged 12 Years In the 32nd Year of the Reign of QUEEN VICTORIA. Rv. Hive with circling bees. Engraving above: LEARN OF US, below hallmarks "WM" (William Moulton). Plain edge. 55.2 mm. Eimer -. BHM -. Vorzüglich / Extremely Fine. Feine Patina. Mit Henkel. Im Originaletui / Nicely toned. With loop. In original box.

From the auction Gerhard Hirsch Nachf. 224, Munich, November 02, lot 1879.

Stepney All Saints Church of England Secondary School (formerly known as Sir John Cass's Foundation and Redcoat School) is a Church of England voluntary aided school and sixth form located in Stepney, London, England.

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Victoria, 1837-1901. Gold Medal n. d. (awarded 1900), 49.72 g. King's College London, Prize Medal. By A. B. Wyon. Arms and motto of the college. COLL : REG : LOND: Rv. Engraving: ARTHUR WRIGHT 1900 in wreath. IN STUDIIS MATHEMATICIS PALMAM FERENTI. Plain edge. 43.1 mm. Eimer - (cf. 1614 reverse). BHM -. Gutes vorzüglich / About Uncirculated. Im Originaletui / In original box.

Purchased from Spink, London, October 2003.

The King's College London is a public research university located in London, England. It was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, it became one of the two founding colleges of the University of London. It is one of the oldest university-level institutions in England.

In the late 20th century, it grew through a series of mergers, including with Queen Elizabeth College and Chelsea College of Science and Technology (in 1985), the Institute of Psychiatry (in 1997), the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals and the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery (in 1998).

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Victoria, 1837-1901. Gold Medal 1874, 33.04 g. The Society of the Attorneys and Solicitors of Ireland, Prize Medal. By J. Woodhouse. Coat of arms of the society. VERITAS VINCET. Rv. Engraving within wreath. AWARDED TO John Harwey Hogan Esq for Superior answering at the competitive Examination FOR THE Society's Prize Micha's Term. 1874. THE SOCIETY OF THE ATTORNEYS & SOLICITORS OF IRELAND . INST 1841 . INCORP 1852. Plain edge. 39.2 mm. Eimer -. BHM -. Vorzüglich / Extremely Fine. Winzige Randfehler / Tiny edge flaws.

From the auction Spink 15005, London, July 2015, lot 471.

The Law Society of Ireland was established on 24 June 1830 with premises at Inns Quay, Dublin. The committee requested that the hall and chambers for the use of solicitors should be erected away from the King's Inns, and apartments in the Four Courts were allotted by the King's Inns to solicitors in May 1841. However, the adequacy of that accommodation at the Four Courts was to be a bone of contention between the Society and the benchers for 30 years. The first president, Josiah Dunn, was elected in 1842. The Law Society was incorporated by royal charter obtained from Queen Victoria on 5 April 1852 under the name of "The Incorporated Society of Attorneys and Solicitors of Ireland".

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Victoria, 1837-1901. Silver Medal 1879, 155.25 g. Marriage of the Duke of Connaught to Princess Louise of Prussia. By J. S. and A. B. Wyon. Busts, conjoined. PRINCESS LOUISE MARGARET OF PRUSSIA * ARTHUR, DUKE OF CONNAUGHT & STRATHEARNE K . G. Armorial shields of the couple, crowned; ribbon below inscribed MAR : 13 1879. Within an ornament quatrefoil. Plain edge. 64 mm. Eimer 1662. BHM 3052. Vorzüglich / Extremely Fine. Rand etwas bearbeitet / Some tooling on edge.

Purchased from Hess Divo, Zurich, May 2001.

Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1 May 1850 - 16 January 1942) was the seventh child and third son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He served as Governor General of Canada, the tenth since Canadian Confederation and the only British prince to do so.

His future wife, Princess Luise Margarete of Prussia, was born in Potsdam in 1860. Her father Prince Friedrich Karl (1828-1885) was the son of Carl of Prussia and his wife Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. Through him, she was a grandniece of Kaiser Wilhelm I.

For the wedding, she boarded the royal yacht 'Victoria and Albert' in Fluching in the Netherlands and landed with her entourage in Sheppey on 12 March. From there, they travelled to Windsor on a special train operated by the London and South-Western Railway. On 13 March 1879, the wedding took place in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. The couple had three children.

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Victoria, 1837-1901. Gold Medal 1880, 65.82 g. Melbourne International Exhibition, Award Medal. By H. Stokes. Bust, crowned and veiled. MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION MDCCCLXXX. Rv. In wreath "VITAM EXCOLVERE PER ARTES". Medal in a gold-ring frame with the engraving: ALÉXIS FAVRE-IMBAULT 1880-1881. Rv. AWARDED GOLD MEDAL FOR SERVICES AUSTRALIA. Plain edge. 47.5 mm. Eimer -. BHM -. Fast FDC / About Mint State. Ringfassung lose / Loose ring frame.

From the auction UBS 85, Zurich, September 2010, lot 2771.

The Melbourne International Exhibition in (1880) was the eighth World's fair officially recognised by the Bureau International des Expositions and the first official World's Fair in the Southern Hemisphere. It was held from 1 October 1880 until 30 April 1881 and was the second international exhibition to be held in Australia, the first being held the previous year in Sydney. 1,459 million people visited the exhibition, made a profit of 1,570 pounds. The exhibition was also opened for entertainment and tourism.

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Victoria, 1837-1901. Gold Medal 1884, 104.15 g. Earl of Dufferin's Viceroy Presentation Award Medal. Unsigned. Lord Dufferin's crowned and supported arms. PRESENTED . BY . HIS . EXCELLENCY . THE . GOVERNOR . GENERAL. Rv. Heart and crescent, coronet and standards above; encircled by the Earl's Orders of chivalry. THE . EARL . OF . DUFFERIN . VICEROY . OF . INDIA . 1884. Edge engraving: PRESENTED TO CAPT: W. R. PRATT AS BEST SHOT IN THE THREE PRESIDENCIES 1887. 51.2 mm. Eimer -. BHM 3162. Puddester 884.1.1. Sehr selten / Very rare. Fast FDC / About Mint State. Prachtexemplar / Cabinet piece.

Purchased from UBS, Zurich, April 1983, lot 31.

Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, (21 June 1826 - 12 February 1902), was a British public servant and prominent member of Victorian society. In his youth he was a popular figure in the court of Queen Victoria, and became well known to the public after publishing a best-selling account of his travels in the North Atlantic. He is now best known as one of the most successful public servants of his time.

His long career in public service began as a commissioner to Syria in 1860, where his skilful diplomacy maintained British interests while preventing France from instituting a client state in Lebanon. After his success in Syria, Dufferin served in the Government of the United Kingdom as the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Under-Secretary of State for War. In 1872, he became Governor General of Canada, bolstering imperial ties in the early years of the Dominion, and in 1884 he reached the pinnacle of his official career as Viceroy of India.

This Viceroy presentation medal for India was the first since Sir John Shore's, eighty-seven years previously, and the first in an unbroken succession of the next ten Viceroys. Unlike his Canadian Governor-General medal (Dufferin was Governor-General of Canada from 1872-78) that had the conjoined busts of the Earl and Countess by A.B. Wyon, he selected for the obverse his arms and supporters and, for the
reverse, a crest, Earl's coronet and orders.

This medal was also used as a shooting prize medal, engraved on the edge with the name of the recipient. A smaller gold medal, 20 mm, was produced by the Calcutta Mint also for use as a shooting prize. The large size medal has not been traced in the Calcutta Mint records suggesting that it was probably made by Pinches.

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Victoria, 1837-1901. Silver Medal 1884, 37.53 g. Extension of the Electoral Franchise. By Maher & Son. British lion standing resolutely before rocks. THE CONSTITUTION IN ALL ITS FULLNESS FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM 1884. In exergue: GLADSTONE AND THE FRANCHISE FOR TWO MILLIONS. Rv. A crown decorated with two ribbons inscribed JUSTICE FOR ALL and PEACE . LAW . ORDER within wreath. OUR QUEEN OUR COUNTRY AND OUR RIGHTS. Plain edge. 43.4 mm. Eimer 1708. BHM -. FDC / Mint State. Prachtvolle Erhaltung mit herrlicher Patina / Beautiful condition with magnificent patina.

From the auction Gerhard Hirsch Nachf. 224, Munich, November 2002, lot 1880.

The Representation of the People Act 1884, also known informally as the Third Reform Act, and the Redistribution Act of the following year were laws which further extended the suffrage in the UK after the Derby government's Reform Act 1867. Taken together, these measures extended the same voting qualifications as existed in the towns to the countryside, more than doubling the electorate in the counties, and essentially established the modern one-member constituency as the normal pattern for parliamentary representation.

However, it did not establish universal suffrage: although the size of the electorate was increased considerably, all women and 40% of men were still without the vote. Male suffrage varied throughout the kingdom, too: in England and Wales, two in three adult males had the vote; in Scotland, three in five did; but in Ireland, the figure was only one in two.

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Victoria, 1837-1901. Gold Medal 1884, 58.56 g. International Health Exhibition. By L. C. Wyon, reverse after L. C. Day. Bust, diademed and veiled. VICTORIA REGINA. Rv. A globe, bearing the fruits of the world, flanked by HEALTH, holding a serpent, and EDUCATION, holding a wreath. THE INTERNATIONAL HEALTH EXHIBITION. In exergue: LONDON 1884. Plain edge. 45.5 mm. Eimer 1704. BHM 3175. Vorzüglich / Extremely Fine. Kleine Randfehler / Minor edge flaws.

From the auction Heidelberger Münzhandlung 31, Heidelberg, December 2000, lot 277.

The International Health Exhibition was one of a series of international exhibitions held in South Kensington, London, in the 1880s under the patronage of Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales. Four million people visited the 1884 exhibition. The exhibition's motto was "From labour health, from health contentment springs".

Around 254 of these medals were struck in gold, 538 in silver and 820 in bronze, and were awarded to exhibitors in various classes.