World Historical Medals

Lot 2928    SESSION 10 (7.30PM WEDNESDAY 3RD APRIL)    World Historical Medals

Estimate $80
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $40

WORLD MEDALS, Australia, Edward VIII, Visit to Australia, 1920, in silvered (20x22mm) (G.CM46.2), Prince of Wales plumes pin back; another similar in silvered (20x22mm) (not in Giordano), stick pin with ribbon; another similar but a circular badge in silvered (24mm) (not in Giordano), stick pin features Prince of Wales plumes with date at sides left and right, 'MAY/1920'; Great Britain, Proposed Coronation, 1937, in silvered and enamel (23mm) (G.CM267b) (2), with suspension loop and one with ribbon and pin brooch suspender, obverse, crown and robed bust of Edward VIII right, reverse, 5-line inscription; another identical but voided background, in silvered and enamel (23mm) (G.CM268), pin-back; another in silvered and enamel (19x24.5mm) (identical to main design of G.CM311 and 311.1), with lapel lug on reverse; another in silvered and enamel (26x35mm) (G.CM312), pin back, obverse, bareheaded head right bordered by coronation regalia, with crown above, and at left and right flags and Royal supporters, scroll below; another in silvered and enamel (33x20mm) (not in Giordano), obverse, on an oval background is a crowned and robed bust of Edward VIII right, at left and right, 'ER/VIII', below, 'CROWNED MAY/1937', in the oval border at left and right, 'H.M.KING/EDWARD VIII', this whole design resting on a horizontal wish-bone with pin back. Fine - nearly uncirculated. (9)

Ex Ian McCutcheon Collection.