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Auction 132 15-18 September 2015
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BRITISH HISTORICAL MEDALS, Henry Taylor, 1880, a uniface cast bronze medal by Elinor Hallé, bust right in cap, 127mm (Attwood –; BHM –; BDM –; E –). Extremely fine with attractive brown patina, very rare and one of the earliest New Sculpture medals £200-300
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Sir Henry Taylor (1800-86), dramatist and poet, b. Bishop Middleham, co Durham; worked in the Colonial Office, 1824-72 and was a prime mover behind the scenes in relation to the abolition of slavery; lived at Sheen, Richmond, from 1851, and in retirement in Bournemouth from 1872 until his death
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Sir Henry Taylor (1800-86), dramatist and poet, b. Bishop Middleham, co Durham; worked in the Colonial Office, 1824-72 and was a prime mover behind the scenes in relation to the abolition of slavery; lived at Sheen, Richmond, from 1851, and in retirement in Bournemouth from 1872 until his death