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Auction 65 21 Sep 2022
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Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), superior white metal Tribute Medal, 1856, by Thomas Ryan Pinches (1825-1869), within an oval cartouche, her half-length seated figure, reading, her name to either side, rev. within palms, crowned VR in shield, AS A MARK OF ESTEEM AND GRATITUDE FOR HER DEVOTION TO - THE QUEEN'S BRAVE SOLDIERS - BLESSED ARE THE MERCIFUL, CRIMEA, 41.5mm. (BHM.2668A; Eimer 1493; Fearon 305.11, none listing this variety; Allen SY-1856/0010, R3), in fitted (Thomas Ottley) black leather case, struck with a superior matt surface resembling silver, choice extremely fine and very rare
The medal was struck in 1856 and the more common variety was sold by Messrs Pinches at the Crystal Palace in Sydenham. Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and other members of the Royal Family attended a Peace Fête at the Crystal Palace on 9 May 1856, at which she unveiled the (unpopular) Scutari Monument by (Pietro) Carlo Giovanni Battista Marochetti in the presence of Florence Nightingale and Crimean veterans. The monument was shipped out to the Old Barrack Hospital, Scutari [Turkey] the following year. A unique specimen of the medal in silver, named to Florence Nightingale, was sold at Baldwin's Auctions, No. 74 (lot 2076). Another white metal example is in the Florence Nightingale Museum at St. Thomas Hospital, London. The medal's portrait is copied from a painting by Juan Buckingham Wandesforde, (1817-1902), though the image is reversed.
(Estimate: 100-150 GBP)
The medal was struck in 1856 and the more common variety was sold by Messrs Pinches at the Crystal Palace in Sydenham. Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and other members of the Royal Family attended a Peace Fête at the Crystal Palace on 9 May 1856, at which she unveiled the (unpopular) Scutari Monument by (Pietro) Carlo Giovanni Battista Marochetti in the presence of Florence Nightingale and Crimean veterans. The monument was shipped out to the Old Barrack Hospital, Scutari [Turkey] the following year. A unique specimen of the medal in silver, named to Florence Nightingale, was sold at Baldwin's Auctions, No. 74 (lot 2076). Another white metal example is in the Florence Nightingale Museum at St. Thomas Hospital, London. The medal's portrait is copied from a painting by Juan Buckingham Wandesforde, (1817-1902), though the image is reversed.
(Estimate: 100-150 GBP)