Watch List notes:

COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, British Historical Medals, Cornwall, Truro School, Gilt-metal Prize Medal, second type, awarded 1831, a young sapling grows from a stump, VIM PROMOVET INSITAM, engraved in exergue, DIGNO 1831, rev legend in seven lines MIN SAC HONORATISSIMUS COMES DE FALMOUTH ..., 47mm, small integral suspension loop, in red leather case of issue. Extremely fine and rare.
Truro School was founded in 1549 and the medals were first presented by General William Macarmick, an old boy. The medals bearing the name of Lord Falmouth were presented between 1811 and 1861. The Latin motto, from Horace (Ode IV, book IV), 'Instruction promotes the Intellect'

Estimate: £80-120