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Lot 74
A surely unique opportunity to acquire in a single offering at auction a complete set of cased gold, silver and bronze prize medals from the 1908 London Olympic Games all awarded to Great Britain competitors, each with an identical design by Bertram Mackennal, by Vaughton of Birmingham in hallmarked gold, silver and bronze, two young maidens are crowning a winning athlete, the reverse with St George slaying the dragon, the gold medal in a red leather case with maroon velvet lining, the silver medal in a dark blue case with purple velvet lining, and the bronze medal in a tan leather case with emerald green velvet lining, the rim of each medal and its case lid inscribed as follows: WINNER, WATER POLO, CHARLES SYDNEY SMITH; OLYMPIC GAMES, WINNER, WATER POLO, LONDON, 1908 SECOND PRIZE RUNNING DEER TEAMS OLYMPIC GAMES, SECOND PRIZE, RUNNING DEER, TEAMS, LONDON, 1908 THIRD PRIZE BANTAM BOXING OLYMPIC GAMES, THIRD PRIZE, BANTAM BOXING, LONDON, 1908 Surely a unique opportunity to acquire examples of all three prize medals from the first London Olympic Games of 1908 in one lot at auction. The gold medal was presented to Charles Sydney Smith (1876-1951). He was born in Wigan the ninth of eleven children. He was the Great Britain water polo goalkeeper who won back-to-back golds at London 1908 & Stockholm 1912 and then, remarkably, returned to the sport aged 41, to help win British gold for a third time at Antwerp in 1920. For the complete record he was still competing at Paris in 1924, but GB were eliminated in the first round. At Stockholm in 1912 he became the first competing athlete to be invited to be the team’s flag bearer at the Opening Ceremony. The silver medal relates to the Great Britain team that finished second in the men’s team single shot running deer competition, one of 15 events in the shooting programme at the London 1908 Games. The team consisted of four marksmen Charles Nix, William Russell Lane-Joynt, Walter Ellicott and Ted Ranken. It is not known to whom this particular medal was awarded. A deer-shaped target made 10 runs of 75 feet which lasted about four seconds. Each competitor was allowed one shot per run from a distance of 110 yards. Concentric circles were drawn on the ‘deer’ with 1-4 points available on the target. Great Britain narrowly missed out on gold accumulating one point less than Sweden’s winning score of 86 from a possible 160 points. The bronze medal was won by the British bantamweight boxer William ‘Wally’ Webb. Britain in fact won a clean sweep of medals in this weight division. Wally Webb had lost to his compatriot John Condon in the semi-final. Very little is known of Webb. He was born 19th November 1882 and affiliated to the 17th North Middlesex School of Arms Amateur Boxing Club.
Lot 80
Sir (John) Bernard Partridge (1861-1945) THE ORIGINAL ARTWORK FOR THE 1908 LONDON OLYMPIC GAMES GOLD MEDAL WINNER’S DIPLOMA signed & dated 1908 in Roman numerals lower right, additionally signed by Lord Desborough (President of the British Olympic Council), mixed media drawing For examples of a 1908 London Olympic Games prize winner’s diploma, see the following lot relating to the British women’s tennis player Dora Boothby and also lot 75 relating to the British gold medal winning boxer Richard K Gunn. The official report for the 1908 London Olympic Games includes a passage about Bernard Partridge’s work in designing the prize medals and the prize winner’s Olympic diploma. ‘In addition to his design for medals, Diplomas of two kinds were also designed by Mr. Bernard Partridge for the Council, and are reproduced in this Report. The first design, for prize-winners only, representing a winged Victory between the figures of Hellas and Britannia, was exhibited in the Royal Academy, and was awarded in its larger form to winners of gold medals, and in a slightly smaller form to winners of silver and bronze medals. Each winner of a gold medal also received the smaller form of this diploma for presentation to his Club or Association as a memorial of his success. The second design, representing Victory seated, was worked out in black and red, and formed a Diploma of Merit, which was awarded by the various Associations controlling each series of events in the Games to athletes who achieved a high standard of excellence without getting first, second, or third in their competition. In a certain number of restricted cases this diploma was also awarded to officials and other for services rendered to the British Olympic Council in the organisation of the Games. It was thought right not to confuse the design in either class of medal by too long an inscription, so the event for which each prize-medal was awarded was incised upon the edge of its rim, with sufficient space left for the addition of the winner’s name. The same inscription was placed on the box containing each medal. The 250 gold medals ordered by the Council were placed in red boxes, 260 silver in dark blue boxes, and 260 bronze in yellow boxes. The large diplomas accompanying gold medals were rolled up in tubes, 20 1/2 inches long, of red, and the club diplomas were placed in deep crimson tubes, 18 1/2 inches in length. Dark blue and yellow tubes (also 18 1/2 inches long) were provided für second and third prize diplomas respectively. The diplomas of merit (of which 500 were ordered) were placed in light blue tubes, 17 inches long. The Commemorative Medals, being larger than the prize medals, were easily distinguishable, apart from the use of various coloured boxes for each class of these awards.’
Lot 115
The 1912 Stockholm Olympic Games gold prize medal awarded to the British swimmer Jennie Fletcher for the 100 metres Freestyle Relay, 33.5mm, struck in silver-gilt (as usual for 1912 1st Place team awards), designed by Erik Lindberg and Bertram Mackennal, two maidens crowning a victorious athlete, the reverse with a herald proclaiming the Olympic Games, Jennie Fletcher became Britain’s first female Olympic swimming medallist when she won an individual bronze in the 1912 100 metres freestyle final behind two Australians (Fanny Durack, who was using the then brand-new ‘Australian Crawl’ technique, and Mina (Wilhelmina) Wylie). In the relay event gold went to the British team of Bella Moore, Jennie, Annie Speirs and Irene Steer ahead of West Germany and Austria. Jennie swam an outstanding second leg to help earn the British girls a World Record as well as Olympic victory. Born on 19 March, 1890 in Leicester, the seventh of nine children in a family of five girls and four boys, Jennie Fletcher attended Mellow Street Board School and participated as often as possible in swimming competitions and exercises. She later wrote: “Swimming to me was my greatest pleasure and no encouragement was needed for me to compete in polo, diving or swimming. There was no mixed swimming in those days but with special permission my brother Ben was allowed to pace me.” From the age of 11 she was coached at Leicester’s Cossington Street Baths by the celebrated Jack Jarvis, whose characteristic freestyle employing the ‘Jarvis-Nuttall Kick’ had already brought him numerous awards (including two Olympic gold medals for the 1,000 and 4,000 metre open water races swum in the River Seine, Paris, in 1900). Jennie recalled: “Most of the early swimming was single arm and trudgen with the scissors kick going to the crawl in the latter stages. My training was not regimented but consisted of long walks, [and] skipping accompanied by deep breathing exercises.” In 1906, at the age of 34, Jarvis added a silver and two bronze medals to his own Olympic tally in the interim Athens Games, by which time Jennie was challenging for her first British record for the Ladies’ 100 yards freestyle. She went on to win 6 Amateur Swimming Association titles for the distance before 1912, setting a new world record in 1909. Working long hours with her father, who nevertheless gave her great support and encouragement as an amateur, she succeeded in winning numerous trophies and awards. She retained the Dewar Shield after winning it three years in succession, broke her own record on 11 occasions, and became British champion 6 times. At the London Olympics of 1908 it was decided, after much deliberation, that swimming competition for Ladies would be permitted; however uncertainty and a late decision meant that in the event there were too few entries to proceed. At the time this must have come as a huge disappointment for Jennie, whose parents had recently declined on her behalf the opportunity of a professional tour of America with the celebrated Annette Kellerman. At Stockholm in 1912, however, there was a strong British Ladies’ contingent, chaperoned by Jack Jarvis’s sister. Jennie later said: “The crowning moment of my career was when King Gustav of Sweden placed the classic laurel wreath on my head, put the gold medal round my neck, and said, ‘Well done, England!’”. In 1917 Jennie married Henry Hill Hyslop and the couple settled in Canada, where they farmed and had six children. Jennie died in 1968. Provenance: Bequeathed by the recipient Jennie Hyslop, née Fletcher, to her son Henry Irving Hyslop (1920-2000); bequeathed in turn by H.I. Hyslop to his daughter (and Jennie’s granddaughter) Heather, on behalf of whom it is now offered for sale. A copy of H.I. Hyslop’s Will, including codicil dated 1994 specifying the bequest to Heather of “… my mother’s gold medal from the 1912 Olympics… “ is included in the lot, together with a contemporary portrait postcard captioned ‘Jennie Fletcher Worlds 100 yds Champion’, showing Jennie wearing Leicester Ladies’ Swimming Club costume and a championship medal (see illustration). Copies of other relating documents, including a letter written by Jennie in 1965 to the compiler of a sports encyclopedia, are also offered with the lot. Other items of memorabilia relating to Jennie’s swimming career, including her Olympic laurel wreath, were donated by her daughter to the International Swimming Hall of Fame in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Lot 144
A 1924 Paris Olympic Games postcard signed to the reverse by 11 Great Britain athletes including gold medallists Harold Abrahams, Eric Liddell & Douglas Lowe, additional signatures including silver medallist George Webber, bronze medallist Edward Toms and Aubrey Montague who together with Abrahams & Liddell featured prominently as characters in the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire, the image showing the Great Britain team parading at the Opening Ceremony, signatures in ink and in pencil, the postcard with a sharp vertical crease
Lot 155
A 1924 Olympic Games diploma for Victor Lay a British participant in the light-heavyweight freestyle wrestling competition, designed by Bernard Naudin in hues of brown & grey with central winged Goddess of Victory, bearing the signatures of the IOC President Pierre de Coubertin, and the French Olympic Committee President, mounted, framed & glazed, overall 79 by 63.5cm., 31 by 25in.; sold together with an official 6 by 8in. photograph of the 1924 British Olympic wrestling team featuring Victor Lay and the freestyle heavyweight bronze medallist Andrew McDonald, printed title and legend, in original frame, overall 30.5 by 37.5cm., 12 by 14 3/4in. (2) A total of 10,700 diplomas were produced and circulated to each Olympic Committee for presentation to their respective participants & officials. Victor Claude Lay was born at Eye, Suffolk, 26th August 1897. He was ranked tied for 11th place at the 1924 Olympic Games. He was the British amateur heavyweight champion between 1923 and 1927, and had also won the British Olympic Trials in 1924. During the First World War in 1915 Victor Lay was involved with the Gallipoli landings. He and a another soldier were carrying an ammunition case ashore when his assistant was shot. The weight of the case then pulled Lay under water, probably saving his life. Later, when shaving and the sun caught on his mirror alerting an enemy marksman of his whereabouts, and Victor Lay was wounded by a ricocheting bullet. He is also known to have taken part in nigh time operations laying tracks across the desert for troops to pass over the following day. Professionally, Victor Lay was a policeman for many years, and latterly worked with the Courts. He was awarded the King George VI Medal for Exemplary Police Service. Victor Lay died at Barnet, Hertfordshire, 1st March 1979.
Lot 157
A group of four Olympic badges, i) a yellow enamel badge with Olympic Rings and inscribed VIII OLYMPIADE 1924, brooch fitting; ii) a white metal & enamel competitor’s badge from the 1928 Amsterdam Games with Olympic Rings and inscribed IX OLYMPIADE, AMSTERDAM, 1928, CONCURRENT, button hole fitting; and two relating to the 1948 London Games, a bronze medal depicting an archer, green ribbon, the brooch bar inscribed LONDON 1948,a and a gilt-metal & enamel badge with Olympic Rings and inscribed 1948, LONDON
Lot 198
Three medals/badges awarded to the Uruguayan footballer Peregrino Anselmo, the first medal in silver plate and inscribed EL PUEBLO DE MALDONADO, A LOS CAMPEONES OLIMPICOS, 1928, P.J. ANSELMO, together with a 1928 Olympic commemorative lapel badge with enamel national flag and football; and a bronze commemorative medal from the 1930 World Cup in Uruguay Anselmo was a member of the Uruguay 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games gold medal winning football squad, and also the winning team at the first World Cup in 1930. His club team was Penarol, where he was later coach.
Lot 235
Two commemorations for the 50th anniversary of the IOC 1894-1944, the first a bronze medal, the obverse with a named portrait of Pierre de Coubertin and further inscribed 23 JUIN 1894 SORBONNE, the reverse inscribed 50me ANNIVERSAIRE DES JEUX OLYMPIQUES LAUSANNE JUIN 1944; sold together with a gold plated stick pin with Olympic Rings & laurel design (2)
Lot 243
A 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Olympic Games cased bronze prize medal and diploma presented to Guy Dugdale for the Great Britain four-man bobsleigh, the large medal, 10cm., 4in. diameter, designed with a victorious charioteer in a quadriga above winter sports motifs and inscribed GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, the reverse with Olympic Rings and the legend IV OLYMPISCHE WINTERSPIELE 1936, in original presentation case; sold together with Dugdale’s bronze medal diploma; 8 b&w press photographs from the Games; and a congratulatory telegram from Carol Dugdale (11) Guy Carol Dugdale (1905-1982) was a British bobsleigher in the 1930s and won this Bronze medal at the 1936 Winter Games in the four-man bobsleigh. His team-mates were Frederick McEvoy, James Cardno and Charles Green. This was one of only three medals that Great Britain secured at Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Famously they won gold in the ice hockey, whilst Cecilia Colledge claimed silver in the women’s singles figure skating.
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Lot 293
A 1936 Berlin Olympic Games bronze prize medal and diploma presented to the Great Britain yachtsman [Sir] Peter Scott, designed by Professor Giuseppe Cassioli, manufactured by B M Mayer of Pforzheim, with Victory seated above a stadium holding a palm branch, the reverse with a winner carried aloft by jubilant athletes, in original presentation case; the third prize diploma in its original presentation folio (2) Peter Scott won bronze in the newly introduced O-Jolle Class for single handed dinghies. The sailing took place on the Firth of Kiel between 4th and 12th August with 25 nations entering. Scott won the first race and led the field to about halfway. Sir Peter Markham Scott (1909-1989) was a celebrated ornithologist, conservationist and acclaimed artist. He was a founder of the World Wildlife Fund and established several wetlands bird sanctuaries in Britain, notably the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at Slimbridge in Gloucestershire.
Lot 296
A collection of memorabilia relating to the British diver Jean Gilbert including the swim suit she wore at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, by Umbro, in black wool, inscribed OLYMPIC GAMES, 1936; sold together with two framed period photograph of Jean Gilbert seen competing in the diving competition wearing this swim suit; and a ‘good luck’ card from Umbro addressed to Miss J Gilbert; the lot also including Jean Gilbert’s: bronze 1936 Olympic Games participation medal; bronze competitor’s badge designed with Olympic Rings above the Brandenburg Gate, numbered 4294, dark blue ribbon; competitor’s identity card for the Berlin Olympics; and a presentation by the Jersey Swimming Club to the British diver Jane Gilbert being a souvenir of her participation at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, in the form of a small two-handled electroplated cup with presentation inscription, mounted on a composition base, height 11cm., 4 1/4in. Jean Gilbert was a member of Jersey Swimming Club who at the age of 16 represented Great Britain at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. In the 10 metres platform diving she finished with a ranking of 7th.
Lot 363
A 1948 London Olympic Games Team Manager’s badge, in bronze, designed with a view of Westminster & Olympic Rings, and dark blue ribbon inscribed gilt TEAM MANAGER, brooch fitting; sold together with a cardboard staff pass for the 1948 London Olympic Games swimming competition at the Empire Pool (2)
Lot 399
Lots 399 to 406 relate to Helen Orr Gordon (later known as Elenor Gordon) the Scottish swimmer at the 1948, 1952 & 1956 Olympic Games. Helen Gordon was the daughter of the manager of the Hamilton swimming baths and was the Scottish 200m breaststroke champion between 1947 and 1957. Helen Gordon’s finest hour was at the Helsinki Games in 1952 when she won the bronze. She still lives in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, where she was born in 1934. Helen Gordon’s participation medals for the 1948, 1952 & 1956 Olympic Games in London, Helsinki and Melbourne, designed by B Mackennal, K Rasanen & A Meszaros respectively, each in a replacement case containing an autographed picture of Helen Gordon pasted to the inside of the lid
Lot 400
A group of badges relating to Helen Gordon’s participation in the 1948, 1952 & 1956 Olympic Games in London, Helsinki & Melbourne, two bronze participant’s badges, for 1948 & 1952, both with ribbon, the first inscribed SWIMMING, the other ULNTI NATATION; gilt metal & enamel lapel badges for 1952 & 1956; a Great Britain blazer badge for 1948; a 1948 Great Britain swimsuit badge; and two small Great Britain cloth badges, for 1948 & 1952 (8)
Lot 401
Helen Gordon’s Great Britain swimsuits worn at the 1948, 1952 & 1956 Olympic Games in London, Helsinki & Melbourne including the occasion of her bronze prize medal in 1952, the first two accompanied by a luggage label signed by Helen Gordon and confirming that she wore the suit at the Games, the 1948 swimsuit is complete with slips, the last time they were issued to women swimmers to wear under their silk suit, each with a silkwork Great Britain team badge, damage to the 1948 swimsuit; sold with a period photograph of Helen Gordon wearing the 1948 swimsuit; and a repro photograph of the British women’s swimming team at the London Games attired in team swimsuits, framed
Lot 413
A very rare 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games participation medal for the equestrian sports held at Stockholm due to Australian quarantine regulations, designed by J. Sjoesvaerd, in bronze, Classical horseman above Olympic Rings, blank reverse There were only 158 participants at the Stockholm events. Over 12,000 medals were made for the main Melbourne Games in 1956.
Lot 460
A rare African American ‘Olympic Project For Human Rights’ protest button from the 1968 Mexico Olympic Games, black and green printing on white celluloid, 6.5cm. diameter, brooch fitting, a rare and historically significant survival Team mates at San Jose University, Tomme Smith and John Carlos were both competitors in the 200 metres final and won the gold and bronze medals respectively. At the medal ceremony Smith and Carlos stood on the podium wearing black socks without shoes and both wore an Olympic Project For Human Rights button such as the example being offered here. They also both wore a black scarf around the neck. As the American flags were raised in the stadium and the National Anthem was played, Smith and Carlos bowed their heads and each raised a gloved fist in the ‘Black Power’ salute.
Lot 491
An autographed official handbook of Great Britain’s Team at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games, extensively signed to the interior by British competitors over their entry in the handbook, signatures including gold medallist swimmer David Wilkie and the men’s modern pentathlon team Fox, Nightingale & Parker, together with the rowing silver medallists Hart, Baillieu, Lester, Smallbone, and bronze medal winners Brendan Foster, Ian Banbury, Michael Bennett, Robin Croker, Ian Hallam & Brian Brinkley, other signatures including future Olympic champions Steve Ovett & Daley Thompson; sold together with enamelled metal Great Britain team badges for the 1976 Summer Games, the 1976 Winter Games and an England badge for the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton (4) The autographs in this lot were collected by the Team GB medical officer Dr Noel O’Brien.
Lot 546
A group of Olympic Games commemorative medals awarded to an IOC member, comprising: i) a cased participation medal for Seoul 1988, bronze ii) a cased medal from the Seoul 1988 Olympic Organising Committee, with a compliments card from Tae Woo Roh, President, gilt iii) an octagonal medal, horseman archer, reverse bearing facsimile signature of Juan Antonio Samaranch and Seh-Jik Park, bronze iv) IOC Session Istanbul 1987, bronze v) IOC Session Baden-Baden 1981, silver & enamel set in Lucite vi) IOC Session Rome 1982, white metal vii) IOC Session Lillehammer 1994, white metal & enamel; sold together with a Pan American Sports Organization medal, An AENOC General Assembly medal 1987, An ANOC General Meeting badge 1984, ANOC General Meeting badge Seoul 1988, a reunion badge in Lisbon 1985, and an unidentified medal (13)
Lot 555
A 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games bronzes prize medal, unawarded, inscribed to the rim ATLANTA COMMITTEE FOR THE OLYMPIC GAMES, bronze, 70mm, by Malcolm Grier Designers, Victory seated above stadium, the reverse with the Atlanta logo over laurel branches and pictogram, green ribbon with gold wire borders, the ribbon bearing the with Atlanta logo, in paper box, with original sealing ribbon
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