Commemorative Medals, India, Roorkee, Thomason College of Civil Engineering, gilt-silver Prize Medal, Calcutta Mint, awarded 1912 (Sergt F. G. Burns, Upper Subordinate Class, for Descriptive Engineering), British lion rests on inscribed plinth within open wreath, PRIZE above, rev. inscription within open wreath, 55.5mm., 80.88gms., (Pudd 948.38.9), the obverse stamped with a British Hallmark declaring it as 18ct gold, extremely fine, rare
The cataloguers are unable to explain the hallmark. The College of Civil Engineering, Roorkee, was officially established in 1847, and Thomason's name added in 1854 to honour its founder, Sir James Thomason, Lieutenant Governor (1843–53). Initially, the engineers' class was for Europeans only, the upper subordinate class for Europeans and Indians and the lower subordinate class for Indians only. (150-200 GBP)