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Auction 147 12-14 Jun 2018
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British Historical Medals from Various Properties
BRITISH HISTORICAL MEDALS, St Pancras Industrial Exhibition, bronze award medals (2), unsigned, named (H.W.A. Lawes, 1880; un-named, 1881), both 38mm (Allen Pt 3); Alexandra Palace Industrial Exhibition, 1881, a silver award medal by J.F. Wright, named (H.W.A. Lawes, 1881), 48mm (Allen Pt 2; cf. DNW 132, 1626) [3]. Very fine £50-70
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Provenance: Harold Lawes, paternal grandfather of the wife of the vendor.
Harold William Allen Lawes (1865-1940), landscape painter from Primrose Hill, London, travelled extensively in the two decades prior to World War I, painting country scenes and landscapes. A precocious talent, he would have received these medals when only 15 and 16 years of age
BRITISH HISTORICAL MEDALS, St Pancras Industrial Exhibition, bronze award medals (2), unsigned, named (H.W.A. Lawes, 1880; un-named, 1881), both 38mm (Allen Pt 3); Alexandra Palace Industrial Exhibition, 1881, a silver award medal by J.F. Wright, named (H.W.A. Lawes, 1881), 48mm (Allen Pt 2; cf. DNW 132, 1626) [3]. Very fine £50-70
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Provenance: Harold Lawes, paternal grandfather of the wife of the vendor.
Harold William Allen Lawes (1865-1940), landscape painter from Primrose Hill, London, travelled extensively in the two decades prior to World War I, painting country scenes and landscapes. A precocious talent, he would have received these medals when only 15 and 16 years of age