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Czechoslovakian gilt bronze medal, the obverse with the wording 'RAD. PROF. UNIVERSITY KARLOVY PH. DR. ALBERT PRAZAK NAR.11.vi.1880' surrounding relief profile and the reverse showing armed civilian figures behind barricade (resistance) in relief and the wording 'VELIKEMU BOJOVNIKU VYSOKOMYTSKA ZA LEPSI ZIVOT A JEDNOTU CESLOSLOVESKEHO LIDU.5.V.1945' AND 'POCTA CESKE AKADEMIE VED A UMENI Z FONDU MUDRA ANT,. HURANE', 2 3/4IN (7cm) diameter
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Great Britain / England, Charles II, Coronation 1661, Copper Medal, by Thomas Rawlins, crowned bust left wearing Collar of the Garter, signed R below, rev Charles as a shepherd, DIXI CVSTODIAM – 23 APRIL 1661, plain edge, 33mm (MI 474/80). Minor spotting on obverse, otherwise extremely fine and a very rare variety, known only in this metal.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Great Britain / England, Admiral Edward Vernon (1684-1757), The Capture of Portobello, Pinchbeck Medal, 1739, half-length figure three-quarters left, holding baton, rev six ships in harbour, WITH SIX SHIPS ONLY, 40mm (MI 532/96; Betts 188). Extremely fine and struck with raised rim, one small spot on edge (reverse at 3 o’clock). On November 21st, 1739, Admiral Vernon attacked the ‘Iron Fort’ at Portobello “with six ships only” and after a short resistance it surrendered. The six ships in the action were H.M.S. Burford (flagship), 70 guns, H.M.S. Hampton Court (Commodore Brown's ship), 70 guns, H.M.S. Worcester, 60 guns, H.M.S. Strafford, 60 guns, H.M.S. Princess Louisa, 60 guns, and H.M.S. Norwich, 50 guns. A seventh ship, H.M.S. Sheerness, 20 guns had been deployed to Cartagena as a scout. Washington’s home, Mount Vernon is named after him, Colonel Lawrence Washington had been part of the American Colonial force serving under him. .
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Great Britain / England, Admiral Edward Vernon, The Capture of Fort Chagre, Pinchbeck Medal, 1740, signed J M, half-length figure of Admiral Vernon right, staff in hand, Fort Chagre behind to left, trophies and flag to right, rev six ships enter Porto Bello harbour, 36mm (MI 546/147; Betts 291, illustrated). Good very fine, much original colour remaining, traces of lacquer in and near exergue on reverse, rare. The bombardment of Fort Chagre (now Chagres), at the mouth of the Chagre River in Panama, lasted from March 22nd to the 24th when the garrision surrendered. The ships that engaged in the bombardment were H.M.S. Stafford, H.M.S. Norwich, H.M.S. Falmouth, and H.M.S. Princess Louisa.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Great Britain / England, Archdeacon Ralph Brideoake (1665-1743), Death, Copper Medal, 1743, by J A Dassier, bust right, rev the Church of St Mary, Southampton, 54mm (MI 572/208). The scarcer variety of the medal, almost very fine, but surface scuffed and with edge knocks. Ralph Brideoake, Archdeacon of Winchester, had been Rector of St Mary’s, Southampton when, in 1722, the church was restored at his own expense. .
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Great Britain / England, The Young Pretender, The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, Copper Medal, 1745, by C N or J C Roettier, bust of Prince Charles right, rev Britannia stands on seashore with shield and spear, awaiting approaching fleet, 41mm (MI 600/251 - arrival of the Young Pretender expected; Woolf 59.2), very fine; and a medallet of the Elder pretender, 1697, 25mm (Woolf 14.5b), nearly fine. (2) Woolf argues that, although dated 1745, the medal cannot have been struck earlier than 1748.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Great Britain / England, The Rebels Retreat to Scotland, Silver Medal, 1745, by A Kirk and J Kirk, the Duke of Cumberland on horseback before a fortified town, rev Cumberland as Roman General offers olive branch to Anglia, 35mm (MI 606/264 – The Rebels Repulsed; Woolf 53.1), very fine; together with Jernegan’s Lottery medal, 1736, with graffiti initials and date, RB – 1797, 38mm (MI 517/72; Betts 169), fair to fine, the initial B defaced. (2) first from the Gavrill collection.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Great Britain / England, The London Institution, bronze ticket for 30-Guineas, 1807, by W Wyon, lion with scroll, number stamped below, 1080, rev seated classical figure, 43mm (D&W 434, R2; MG -), very fine; Calendar Medal 1895, Aluminium, probably by Henry Grueber & Co., for “Carter’s Little Liver Pills”, 39mm, this, unusually for aluminium, virtually mint state. (2) The calendar medal unlisted by Silke Ackermann, The Medal, Nos 45, 46, Autumn 2004, Spring 2005.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Great Britain / England, James Sadler (1751-1828), First English Aeronaut, the Record Speed Flight, White Metal Medal, 1812, by P Wyon, bust left, legend around, rev ornate balloon gondola with Sadler and passenger, flags at either end, ASCENDED FROM BIRMINGHAM …, 52mm, in contemporary velvet-lined turned wood fitted box (Mal 26; BHM 712). Extremely fine, the reverse especially choice. James Sadler made his first flight on the 4th October 1784, in a Montgolfier-type balloon with a 170-foot circumference, and made a number of flights during 1785, only to give up following a near disaster. However he was tempted back in 1812 and taking off from Vauxhall in Birmingham, with a Mr. Burcham as his passenger, flew for 112 miles in an hour and twenty minutes. The landing was rough and Sadler was thrown from the gondola leaving the unfortunate Mr. Burcham to throw out an anchor which caught in some trees. Burcham survived without harm though the balloon was destroyed. Sadler was the son of an Oxford pastry cook and before he took to ballooning found employment at the Ashmolean Museum. A plaque in Christ Church Meadow honours one of his first flights. Sadler’s son, Windham William, lost his life in a ballooning accident in 1824.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Great Britain / England, George, Prince Regent, the Opening of Waterloo Bridge, Silver Medal, 1817, by T Wyon Jr, bust left, rev flag, lettered edge, 27mm (BHM 961); Victoria, Opening of the New Royal Exchange, Silver Medal, 1844, by W Wyon, 28mm (BHM 2186); Jubilee 1897, Silver Medals (2, one the small official medal), and a brass medalet for the Preliminaries of Peace, 1801. Very fine. (5) first from the G H Gaviller Collection.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Great Britain / England, The ‘W.H.’ Medal, Copper Prize Medal for Industry, Courtesy and Integrity, 1839, by T Halliday, scenes in three segments, the theatre at Athens, the Spartans and Athenians as the audience; Socrates is seated in prison; and Demosthenes on a rocky shore, rev five-line inscription, a small oval in the lower centre incusely stamped 92, 57mm. Good extremely fine, rare. .
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Great Britain / England, Mehemet Ali (Mohammad Ali) Pasha (1769-1849), founder of modern Egypt, Copper Medal, 1840, by A J Stothard, bust three-quarters left, with flowing beard and wearing fez, rev FROM THE COMMITTEE THE FRIEND OF SCIENCE COMMERCE & ORDER WHO PROTECTED THE SUBJECTS AND PROPERTY OF ADVERSE POWERS AND KEPT OPEN THE OVERLAND ROUTE TO INDIA 1840, in ten lines, crossed palm leaves below, 58mm. Very fine and scarce. Mohammad Ali, the Ottoman Sultan’s Viceroy, was appointed as Egypt’s Governor on May 17, 1805 and ruled Egypt till September 1848. The obverse bust is based on the famous portrait by Sir David Wilkie, painted in Alexandria in 1840. Wilkie had been travelling in the Middle East and died in 1841 at Gibraltar, never completing the journey home.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Great Britain / England, Church Missionary Society, Jubilee 1848, Copper Medal, by B Wyon, St Paul stands preaching, rev legend within border, circle of medallions around with names of countries from where the Society operated, 58mm (BHM 2310); other copper medals (3), Prince Albert, the Great Exhibition, 1851, by Schnitzspahn and J Wiener, 42mm; Nelson, Foudroyant medal, 1897, 38mm; France, Saint Quentin, armorial medal, 19th century. All but third good very fine. (9).
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Great Britain / England, Richard Sainthill (1787-1869), Numismatist and Antiquarian, Copper Medal, 1855, by L C Wyon, bust right, rev the Genius of Numismatics greets a young female and reveals a half-sleeping sage, 58mm (BHM 2571; E 1501), about very fine, light verdigris; The Numismatic Society of London, Golden Jubilee medal 1887, Copper, by Pinches, bearded bust right of Sir John Evans, rev legend within and around laurel wreath, 58mm (BHM 3344; E 1729), extremely fine. (2) Sir John Evans (1823-1908), English archaeologist, geologist, and numismatist, president of the Numismatic Society of London, later the Royal Numismatic Society and of the Society of Antiquaries.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, France, Napoleon, Assassination Attempt, Copper Medal, 1800, by Henri Auguste, bust left in uniform, rev legend in ten lines, 50mm (Br 76; d'E 861). Good very fine. This nearly successful attempt on the life of Napoleon took place on Christmas Eve in 1800 when a massive bomb exploded near his carriage as he went to the opening night of Haydn's opera Creation. A barrel filled with gunpowder and shrapnel was placed on a horse and wagon on the Rue Saint-Nicaise but exploded seconds after he passed. The power of the bomb destroyed several buildings and and an estimated 52 people were killed or wounded by the device - known as the Infernal Machine.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, France, Napoleon, Peace of Pressbourg, Copper Medal, 1805, by Andrieu, 40mm, fine, reverse rim knock, pierced at top; other bronze medals (2), Exposition Universelle 1878, by Oudiné, 50mm, good extremely fine, Ministry of War, Military Preparation award medal, c.1900, by Daniel Dupuis, 50mm, very fine. (3) .
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Germany or Bohemia, Christ, cast Silver-gilt medal, 16th or early 17th century, signed IR in monogram on reverse, radiating bust of Christ left, EGO SVM VIA VERITAS ET VITA, rev St John writes gospel, seated in a garden, an eagle before him, a vision of the Madonna above, 48mm, suspensin loop (cut and twisted in antiquity). Very fine. .
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Italy, Vatican, Innocent XI, Odeschalchi (1676-1689), Copper Medal, 1676, by Hamerani, bust right in cap, rev Pope carried in procession into Basilica, 37mm (Linc 1404); others smaller (2) of Innocent X, 1650, 26mm (Linc 1075) and Innocent XII, year 1, 32mm (Linc 1518); and a White Metal copy of the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre medal, 1572. Very fine and better. (4).
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Great Britain / England, Philip II (b.1527), King of England (1554-1558), King of Spain (1556-1598), cast Bronze Medal, 1556, by Gianpaolo Poggini, bearded bust left, wearing armour and ruff collar, legend ends ANGLIÆ REX, rev Bellerophon astride the Pegasus, spearing the Chimaera, HINC. VIGILO, 42mm (MI 80/39; Attwood 1076). Very fine, pierced at top (6 o’clock on reverse). Gianpaolo Poggini (1518-c.1580). The medal alludes to the King’s opposition to Protestantism.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Great Britain / England, Charles I, Copper Memorial Medal, struck c.1695, by James and Norbert Roettier, armoured bust right, lovelock over left shoulder, rev hand emerges from cloud holding celestial crown above a landscape, 50mm (MI 346/200; Griffiths, The Medal, No.15, Autumn 1989, pp.4-6). Very fine.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Great Britain / England, Charles II, Coronation 1661, the official Silver Medal, by Thomas Simon, crowned bust right, wearing ornate lace cravat, rev the King enthroned, crowned by Peace, 30mm (MI 472/76). Nearly extremely fine, lightly toned. The medal struck for distribution at the Ceremony on Tuesday, 23rd April, 1661, as noted by Samuel Pepys, “And three times the King at Arms went to the three open places on the scaffold, and proclaimed, that if any one could show any reason why Charles Stewart should not be King of England, that now he should come and speak. And a Generall Pardon also was read by the Lord Chancellor, and meddalls flung up and down by my Lord Cornwallis, of silver, but I could not come by any.”.
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A Group of Four Second World War Medals, comrising 1939/45 Star, Italy Star, Defence Medal and 1939/45 Medal, together with cloth shoulder titles for the Royal Devon Yeomanry; a Group of Six Second World War Medals, comprising two 1939/45 Stars, Africa Star, Italy Star, Burma Star and 1939/45 Medal
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A Family Group of Medals:- An RAF Group of Six Medals, awarded to 1528646 SGT.H. TOOMS. R.A.F., comprising 1939/45 Star, Africa Star with bar NORTH AFRICA 1942/43, Italian Star, Defence Medal, War Medal and RAF Long Service Good Conduct Medal, with miniatures; a group of four medals awarded to 23227446 W.O.CL.2 H.A.TOOMS R.IRISH, comprising Africa General Service Medal with clasp KENYA, GSM with clasp NORTHERN IRELAND, UN Medal, and Army Long Service Good Conduct Medal, with miniatures
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An Incomplete First World War Gallantry Group, awarded to 11296 SJT.. A.C.S.MJR.F.S.METCALFE. 13/YORK..R., comprising DCM (swivel mounted), a Meritorious Service Medal to C.S.MJR F.S.METCALFE D.C.M. 13/YORK.R., and a French Somme commemorative medal; together with four related photographs, a signed volume of The First Day on the Somme, by Martin Middlebrook, and a silk postcard. **The above was born in Leyburn and during the Second World War he enlisted in the RAF
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The Littlefair Family at War:- A First World War Gallantry Group, awarded to 66665 SGT.A.G.LITTLEFAIR. M.G.C., comprising DCM, 1914/15 Star, BWM and Victory Medal, slung mounted with regimental cap badge, with divisional citation and a gold plated hunter cased pocket watch with presentation inscription for gallantry; three Second World War Medals, awarded to AC2 R.G.LITTLEFAIR RAF, comprising 1939/45 Star, Pacific Star, 1939/45 Medal and Defence Medal, with photograph album and record of service
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