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Auction 185 1-2 Dec 2020
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Sussex Tokens, Tickets and Medals from the Collection formed by the late Ron Kerridge
Historical Medals, Rye, Rye Volunteers, 1794, an engraved hollow silver-gilt medal, unsigned, arms of the Cinque Ports surmounted on a flag, a Union Jack in the top corner, oak wreath around, motto pro rege et focis below, legend (In commemoration of elegant industry and female Patriotism) around, rev. similar but the wreath of hops and barley, motto pro rege et arvis, edge named (Miss Sarh. Lamb), hallmarked London 1794, 45mm, 27.75g. Holed on the edge for suspension, some edge nicks and rubbed in centre of reverse, otherwise about very fine and extremely rare; only six medals awarded
£300-£500
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Sarah Lamb (1778-1818), married James Noble, from Folkestone, a Captain in the RN, at St Mary's Rye, on 8 September 1801. Her sisters Elizabeth and Susan were witnesses.
An article on these medals by the well-known Sussex numismatist, J.B. Caldecott, published in the Sussex County Magazine in 1937, is sold with the lot. In it Caldecott quotes from an account in the European Magazine for November 1794, which makes it clear that the medals were presented to six ladies of Rye for their services in embroidering two banners, which were presented to the Rye Volunteers on 24 September 1794. The names of the ladies were embroidered on the bottom of the colours, and they were Mrs Catalina Lamb, née Mathews (wife of Capt. James Lamb, commander of the Rye Volunteers), Elizabeth Lamb, Sarah Lamb, E. Biley, S. Biley and [uncertain] Biley. Caldecott acquired Elizabeth Lamb's medal at an auction in the 1930s; she was the last of the family to reside in Rye, where she died in 1855, aged 88
Historical Medals, Rye, Rye Volunteers, 1794, an engraved hollow silver-gilt medal, unsigned, arms of the Cinque Ports surmounted on a flag, a Union Jack in the top corner, oak wreath around, motto pro rege et focis below, legend (In commemoration of elegant industry and female Patriotism) around, rev. similar but the wreath of hops and barley, motto pro rege et arvis, edge named (Miss Sarh. Lamb), hallmarked London 1794, 45mm, 27.75g. Holed on the edge for suspension, some edge nicks and rubbed in centre of reverse, otherwise about very fine and extremely rare; only six medals awarded
£300-£500
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Sarah Lamb (1778-1818), married James Noble, from Folkestone, a Captain in the RN, at St Mary's Rye, on 8 September 1801. Her sisters Elizabeth and Susan were witnesses.
An article on these medals by the well-known Sussex numismatist, J.B. Caldecott, published in the Sussex County Magazine in 1937, is sold with the lot. In it Caldecott quotes from an account in the European Magazine for November 1794, which makes it clear that the medals were presented to six ladies of Rye for their services in embroidering two banners, which were presented to the Rye Volunteers on 24 September 1794. The names of the ladies were embroidered on the bottom of the colours, and they were Mrs Catalina Lamb, née Mathews (wife of Capt. James Lamb, commander of the Rye Volunteers), Elizabeth Lamb, Sarah Lamb, E. Biley, S. Biley and [uncertain] Biley. Caldecott acquired Elizabeth Lamb's medal at an auction in the 1930s; she was the last of the family to reside in Rye, where she died in 1855, aged 88