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Auction 49 5 Oct 2021
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Admiral Lord Nelson, Greenwich Hospital School, Prize Medal, 1838, silver, by Halfhide, PALMAN QVI MERVIT FERAT, uniformed bust of Nelson l., rev. struck legend, engraved to John Lash, 1838, 36mm. (Hardy 90; BHM - ; Eimer - ; Grimshaw - ; Milford Haven - ), in circular red leather fitted case of issue, extremely fine and a very rare early issue
*ex A. H. Baldwin & Sons, auction 38, 4 October 2004 (lot 1054).
Greenwich Hospital School was founded in 1712 and amalgamated with the Royal Naval Asylum in 1821. It is not known when the school's first prize medals were awarded but the cataloguer knows of no earlier example prior to the one offered here dated 1838.
(180-220 GBP)
*ex A. H. Baldwin & Sons, auction 38, 4 October 2004 (lot 1054).
Greenwich Hospital School was founded in 1712 and amalgamated with the Royal Naval Asylum in 1821. It is not known when the school's first prize medals were awarded but the cataloguer knows of no earlier example prior to the one offered here dated 1838.
(180-220 GBP)