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Auction 169 12-13 Feb 2020
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The Don Kenefick Collection of Historical Medals
England, Royal Institute of British Architects, Pugin Medal, a silver award by J. Taylor Foot, decorated column supported by two lions, rev. Pugin arms, edge named (William Henry Bidlake, M.A., 1885), 57mm (E 1471). Brightly cleaned and with a couple of rim nicks, otherwise about extremely fine £80-£100
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Provenance: J. Spencer Collection, DNW Auction M11, 13 July 2011, lot 1009.
William Henry Bidlake (1861-1938), a leading figure in the Arts and Crafts movement in Birmingham; b. Wolverhampton; educ. Tettenhall College and Christ's College, Cambridge; RA Schools, 1882; RIBA Pugin Travelling Fellow, 1885; set up in independent practice, Birmingham, 1887; pioneered the teaching of architecture at Birmingham School of Art, 1893 and director of the School of Architecture, 1919-24
England, Royal Institute of British Architects, Pugin Medal, a silver award by J. Taylor Foot, decorated column supported by two lions, rev. Pugin arms, edge named (William Henry Bidlake, M.A., 1885), 57mm (E 1471). Brightly cleaned and with a couple of rim nicks, otherwise about extremely fine £80-£100
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Provenance: J. Spencer Collection, DNW Auction M11, 13 July 2011, lot 1009.
William Henry Bidlake (1861-1938), a leading figure in the Arts and Crafts movement in Birmingham; b. Wolverhampton; educ. Tettenhall College and Christ's College, Cambridge; RA Schools, 1882; RIBA Pugin Travelling Fellow, 1885; set up in independent practice, Birmingham, 1887; pioneered the teaching of architecture at Birmingham School of Art, 1893 and director of the School of Architecture, 1919-24