Baldwin & Sons
Auction 90 24 September 2014
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Medals by Subject, Railways, Midland Railway Ambulance Corps, Special Silver Presentation Medal, 1904, "to John Patterson... Concert Committee for gratuituous services given at the Grand Opera House on Good Friday 1904, Manager S. Seal", engraved locomotive and tender below arms of the City of York, SEMPER PARATUS, rev engraved presentation inscription, 52mm, with ribbon and suspender, bar, this enamelled YORK, in fitted case of issue. Brooch mounted across the reverse, the obverse better than very fine.
ex DNW Auction, 6 December 2012, lot 1289, where the city arms erroneously described as Nottingham
A splendid letter from a Mr Seal is sold with the lot (together with a typescript), in which he states: "I may tell you now that it is the only Medal of this description in the whole Empire. It is unique, and as years roll by, it will be of considerably more value than it is at present". The locomotive depicted is Midland Railway Class 4 4-4-0 Compound steam locomotive No 2632, built at the Derby Works, January 1902, and designed by the Midland Railway Chief Mechanical Engineer, Samuel Johnson.
Estimate: £220-280
ex DNW Auction, 6 December 2012, lot 1289, where the city arms erroneously described as Nottingham
A splendid letter from a Mr Seal is sold with the lot (together with a typescript), in which he states: "I may tell you now that it is the only Medal of this description in the whole Empire. It is unique, and as years roll by, it will be of considerably more value than it is at present". The locomotive depicted is Midland Railway Class 4 4-4-0 Compound steam locomotive No 2632, built at the Derby Works, January 1902, and designed by the Midland Railway Chief Mechanical Engineer, Samuel Johnson.
Estimate: £220-280