Baldwin's of St. James's
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Commemorative Medals, British Empire, Education: Cape Town, an early engraved oval silver medal, 1827, 'MERIT REWARDED – Rosa Maria Whitcomb', within wreath, rev. 'Cape of Good Hope March 2nd 1827', within wreath and sprays, raised border, 59.5 x 49mm. pierced for suspension, very fine and extremely rare
*ex. W. J. Davis Collection (the joint author, with A. W. Waters, of Tickets and Passes of Great Britain and Ireland, 1922).
Rosa Maria Whitcomb, born 6 September, 1814 and baptised in Cape Town, 23 September, 1816, the daughter of Charles and Sophia Louisa Besley Whitcomb, he a lawyer. Her siblings were two brothers, Felix (b. 1816) and Theodore Charles (1818-1882). It is not known which school Rosa Maria Whitcomb attended nor, indeed, when she died. She married, first, Benjamin Phillips, 23 November, 1831, at the English Church; and, second (by Special Licence), Jacobus Arnoldus Hurter Van Breda, 13 November, 1840 at St. George's Church.
The W. V. R Baldwin Collection of the Medals of Southern Africa (300-500 GBP)
*ex. W. J. Davis Collection (the joint author, with A. W. Waters, of Tickets and Passes of Great Britain and Ireland, 1922).
Rosa Maria Whitcomb, born 6 September, 1814 and baptised in Cape Town, 23 September, 1816, the daughter of Charles and Sophia Louisa Besley Whitcomb, he a lawyer. Her siblings were two brothers, Felix (b. 1816) and Theodore Charles (1818-1882). It is not known which school Rosa Maria Whitcomb attended nor, indeed, when she died. She married, first, Benjamin Phillips, 23 November, 1831, at the English Church; and, second (by Special Licence), Jacobus Arnoldus Hurter Van Breda, 13 November, 1840 at St. George's Church.
The W. V. R Baldwin Collection of the Medals of Southern Africa (300-500 GBP)