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Auction 55 26 Jan 2022
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Victoria and Albert, The Great Exhibition, copper prize medal, 1851, by W. Wyon and L. C. Wyon, conjoined busts of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert l., rev. the figure of Industry confers Labour with a wreath, edge named, PRIZE MEDAL OF THE EXHIBITION - A. & S. HENRY & Co. CLASS XII., 76.5mm. (BHM.2462; Eimer 1456; Allen HP A015), in maroon leather case of issue, good extremely fine
A. & S. Henry & Co Ltd. of 32 Portland Street, Manchester, was founded in 1805 in Manchester by the brothers Alexander and Samuel Henry. Alexander had emigrated to America from Ireland in 1783, joining his uncle as a merchant in Philadelphia. However, seeing the rapid growth of the cotton trade in Manchester he returned to England in 1804 and A. & S. Henry & Co was established the following year. They exhibited woollen clothes (Class XII – Woollen and Worsted) at the Great Exhibition. The company was taken over by Great Universal Stores in 1972 and their archived records are held by the University of Dundee Archive Services.
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A. & S. Henry & Co Ltd. of 32 Portland Street, Manchester, was founded in 1805 in Manchester by the brothers Alexander and Samuel Henry. Alexander had emigrated to America from Ireland in 1783, joining his uncle as a merchant in Philadelphia. However, seeing the rapid growth of the cotton trade in Manchester he returned to England in 1804 and A. & S. Henry & Co was established the following year. They exhibited woollen clothes (Class XII – Woollen and Worsted) at the Great Exhibition. The company was taken over by Great Universal Stores in 1972 and their archived records are held by the University of Dundee Archive Services.
(200-250 GBP)