Watch List notes:

Medals by Subject, Photography: Birmingham Photographic Society, a pair of large bronze medals and plaquette awarded to W. Howard Coley; the medals unsigned, perhaps Henry W. Simpson, 1911 and 1921, a photographer and his assistant at work in a darkroom, named in elaborate script on reverse, 80mm., first perhaps gilt in case of issue, the plaquette, Autumn 1914, unsigned, a seated diaphanous lady holds a wreath, 90 (arched top) x 47mm., in case of issue, all much as issued, extremely fine to mint state (3)
Ex Baldwin's vault.
In 1908, W. Howard Coley of Ivydene, Mayfield Road, Moseley, Birmingham, exhibited a photograph entitled Evening Sunlight as no. 564 in the Fifty-third Annual Exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain. The first Birmingham Photographic Society was founded in October 1856, with the membership universally available to men and women