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Auction 37  25 Sep 2019
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Lot 523

Estimate: 70 GBP
Price realized: 160 GBP
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Ceremonial keys: gilt-silver key, 'Frederick Cooper Memorial Institute, opened by Miss Welch 23rd April, 1910', the bow filled with a fine enamelled picture of the building 121mm., London hallmark, maker Walker & Hall; Wales, silver key, 'Presented to Mrs. A. Ll. Thomas – On the occasion of the opening of Zion, Trehafod, May 9th, 1912', 84.5mm., Birmingham hallmark, maker Constantine & Floyd, Ltd., in fitted case; gilt-silver key, 'Presented to E. J. Fox, Esq at the opening of the Holwell Works Institute, May 23rd 1930', 121.5mm., London hallmark for 1927, makers AW/JH, in case of issue, very fine (3)
The Sion (Zion) English Calvinistic Methodist Church, Trehafod, in the Rhondda Valley, was built in 1875 in the later Vernacular and Arts and Crafts style of the gable-entry type. The cataloguer assumes an extension was built in 1912. By 1997 Sion had been converted for other use. The Holwell Works Institute, Asfordby Hill, Melton Mowbray, Leics. The cataloguer has not traced the Frederick Cooper Memorial Institute.
(70-100 GBP)
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