Architecture: Richard Phené Spiers (1838-1916), bronze plaquette, 1905, by Edouard Lanteri (1848-1917), bust l., rev. an Ionic column before a view of the Acropolis, THE GREATEST TRVST ..., 79 x 59mm. (BHM.3921; Eimer 1884; Eidlitz 963); John Alexander Tilleard (1850-1913), first curator of the Royal Philatelic Collection, silver medal, 1920, awarded to Lt. Col. A. S. Bates, DSO,TD, the first year of the award, 44.5mm.; patinated iron ingot, stamped with medallic heads of Socrates and a 17th century lady, on wavy field, 103 x 44mm.; and a small French 'Bois Durci' roundel of a classical head l., probably Zeus, 65mm., very fine or better (4)
Third ex. G. K. Beaulah Collection.
Spiers was the eldest son and one of the 11 children of R. J. Spiers of Oxford – a prominent Freemason, "having filled the highest offices in the Lodges here".
Estimate: 70 - 100 GBP