Baldwin & Sons
Argentum Auction Fall 2015 7 November 2015
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MEDALS BY SUBJECT, Royal Navy, HMS Chichester, Training Ship, Silver Award Medal, "on return from second voyage with good conduct", c.1874, by W J Taylor, Hope stands by anchor, beconing towards ship, ENGLAND EXPECTS ... around, rev legend, an un-named specimen, 38.5mm, suspension swivel ring. Extremely fine.
The same design was used for medals awarded by other training ships – HMS Arethusa, HMS Exmouth and HMS Goliath. HMS Chichester was a 52-gun fourth rate launched in 1843, but laid up that year. She was lent as a training ship in 1866, the first Shaftesbury Homes' training ship, and replaced by HMS Arethusa (see following lot) and was sold in 1889. At that time the Shaftesbury Homes were known as 'The National Refuges for Destitute Children' - a society having it's origin in 1843.
Estimate: £60-80
The same design was used for medals awarded by other training ships – HMS Arethusa, HMS Exmouth and HMS Goliath. HMS Chichester was a 52-gun fourth rate launched in 1843, but laid up that year. She was lent as a training ship in 1866, the first Shaftesbury Homes' training ship, and replaced by HMS Arethusa (see following lot) and was sold in 1889. At that time the Shaftesbury Homes were known as 'The National Refuges for Destitute Children' - a society having it's origin in 1843.
Estimate: £60-80