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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, YORKSHIRE, Leeds, University of Leeds, John Hunter Medal (Est. 1831), a silver award by B. Wyon, bust right, rev. legend around wreath, chemia in centre, edge named (Edwardus Joy in Chemia Præstans, A.D. 1840), 51mm, 59.46g (D & W 238/277 obv.; cf. DNW M7, 2099). About extremely fine, grey tone, rare £80-100
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The recipient is believed to have been the Leeds-born Edward Joy (1816-98) who emigrated to New South Wales in 1853, where he is remembered as a pastoralist and ragged school philanthropist
BRITISH HISTORICAL MEDALS, YORKSHIRE, Leeds, University of Leeds, John Hunter Medal (Est. 1831), a silver award by B. Wyon, bust right, rev. legend around wreath, chemia in centre, edge named (Edwardus Joy in Chemia Præstans, A.D. 1840), 51mm, 59.46g (D & W 238/277 obv.; cf. DNW M7, 2099). About extremely fine, grey tone, rare £80-100
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The recipient is believed to have been the Leeds-born Edward Joy (1816-98) who emigrated to New South Wales in 1853, where he is remembered as a pastoralist and ragged school philanthropist