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Auction 142 13-15 Sep 2017
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BRITISH EDUCATIONAL AWARD MEDALS FROM THE COLLECTION FORMED BY THE LATE T.H. WATTS
BRITISH HISTORICAL MEDALS, KENT, Brompton, Mrs Harding's Boarding School, 1791, an engraved silver Fourth Prize Medal, unsigned, legend both sides, rev. engraved P.S. [initials of the recipient], 33mm, 8.13g (Grimshaw 1985, p.4, this piece listed; cf. MG 930-2). Very fine; pierced for suspension £70-90
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From at least the 1780s there was a boarding school at Brompton House. By 1787 the proprietor was Mrs Sarah Hardinge and by 1800 it was being run by a Miss Hearne. The school survived until at least the 1880s but the House was destroyed by fire prior to the outbreak of World War I
BRITISH HISTORICAL MEDALS, KENT, Brompton, Mrs Harding's Boarding School, 1791, an engraved silver Fourth Prize Medal, unsigned, legend both sides, rev. engraved P.S. [initials of the recipient], 33mm, 8.13g (Grimshaw 1985, p.4, this piece listed; cf. MG 930-2). Very fine; pierced for suspension £70-90
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From at least the 1780s there was a boarding school at Brompton House. By 1787 the proprietor was Mrs Sarah Hardinge and by 1800 it was being run by a Miss Hearne. The school survived until at least the 1880s but the House was destroyed by fire prior to the outbreak of World War I