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Auction 143 12-14 Dec 2017
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British Educational Award Medals from the Collection Formed by the Late T.h. Watts
BRITISH HISTORICAL MEDALS, LONDON, Newgate, Christ's Hospital, an engraved silver-gilt Governors' award medal by J. Reily, named (Hy. Alexr. Ince), rev. legend (The First Proficient in Writing, 28 May 1824), hallmarked London 1824, 40mm, 9.44g (Grimshaw p.14, 31; cf. DNW M10, 1351). Very fine, rare; in contemporary [non-original] brown case £120-150
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Henry Alexander Ince (1809-95), b. Calcutta; worked for Palmer, Mackillop, Dent & Co, London; emigrated to Shanghai, July 1854 and became a land-renter in the British settlement, returning to London in 1867. The following year he founded the 'Barham School' at Trecŵn, Pembrokeshire, in memory of his sister's interest in local education. He was a proprietor of the London Institution (No. 864), recorded as living in Greenwich
BRITISH HISTORICAL MEDALS, LONDON, Newgate, Christ's Hospital, an engraved silver-gilt Governors' award medal by J. Reily, named (Hy. Alexr. Ince), rev. legend (The First Proficient in Writing, 28 May 1824), hallmarked London 1824, 40mm, 9.44g (Grimshaw p.14, 31; cf. DNW M10, 1351). Very fine, rare; in contemporary [non-original] brown case £120-150
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Henry Alexander Ince (1809-95), b. Calcutta; worked for Palmer, Mackillop, Dent & Co, London; emigrated to Shanghai, July 1854 and became a land-renter in the British settlement, returning to London in 1867. The following year he founded the 'Barham School' at Trecŵn, Pembrokeshire, in memory of his sister's interest in local education. He was a proprietor of the London Institution (No. 864), recorded as living in Greenwich