Baldwin & Sons
Auction 93 5 May 2015
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, British Historical Medals, The Great Exhibition, Copper Juror's Medal, 1851, by W Wyon and G G Adams, conjoined busts of Albert and Victoria left, dolphins below, trident behind, rev Industry seated on a cornucopiæ, attended by Commerce and crowned by Fame, symbols in exergue, named on edge to Robert Dixon Box, Associate Juror, 64mm, in case of issue (BHM 2464; Eimer 1459; Allen HP-A040). Choice, virtually mint state and very rare.
Robert Dixon Box was a London shoemaker, the son of a bankrupted Quaker attorney, apprenticed to one James Sly in 1816 and taking over the business in 1826 on Sly's death. The business was consolidated by his son and became the Joseph Box Shoe Company. Box gained his reputation for fine shoemaking through participation at international exhibitions and by obtaining Royal Warrants. The company was to go through several name changes before becoming absorbed into John Lobb Ltd. A shoe exhibited by Box at the Great Exhibition can be seen in the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia.
Estimate: £200-300
Robert Dixon Box was a London shoemaker, the son of a bankrupted Quaker attorney, apprenticed to one James Sly in 1816 and taking over the business in 1826 on Sly's death. The business was consolidated by his son and became the Joseph Box Shoe Company. Box gained his reputation for fine shoemaking through participation at international exhibitions and by obtaining Royal Warrants. The company was to go through several name changes before becoming absorbed into John Lobb Ltd. A shoe exhibited by Box at the Great Exhibition can be seen in the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia.
Estimate: £200-300