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Auction 199  1-2 Dec 2021
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Lot 1139

Estimate: 400 GBP
Price realized: 380 GBP
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British Historical Medals from Various Properties

Royal Horticultural Society, Banksian award medals after W. Wyon [1820] (2), in silver, named (To Granville B. Ellis for an exhibition of Rock Garden, Chelsea Show, 1936), in silver-gilt, named (To Mr Granville B. Ellis for an exhibit of a Rock-Garden, Chelsea Show, 1937), both 38mm (MJP p.154); Royal Horticultural Society, a silver award medal after W. Wyon [1836], named (To Mr Granville B. Ellis for an exhibit of a Rock-Garden, Chelsea Show, 1938), 55mm (MJP p.155); Royal Horticultural Society, Gold Medal, a gold award by H.J. Youngman for Pinches, named (Awarded to Mr Granville B. Ellis for an exhibit of a Rock Garden, Chelsea Show, 1939), 32mm, hallmarked London 1938, 9ct, 30.36g (MJP p.155); together with miscellaneous coins, in silver (2), base metal (18) [24]. Medals virtually as struck and in cases of issue, latter by the Royal Mint, coins in varied state £400-£500

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Granville B. Ellis, a London-based landscape gardener, is only shown in RHS records as exhibiting at four consecutive Chelsea shows, 1936-9. Medals only illustrated
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