World Historical Medals
Lot 3684 Session 12 (11.30 Thu 27th March) World Historical Medals
Estimate $100
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $200
CHINA, (C)hina (I)nland (M)ission (B)oy's (S)chool, prize medals in silver, shield shape (35mm x 30mm), English hallmarked, ring top suspensions, both inscribed on the obverse "CIMBS/Chefoo/Old Boys/Challenge Shield" "1929" for one and "1930" for the other, both inscribed on the reverse "Won by/J.B./Davies". Very fine. (2)
Chefoo is situated on the southern edge of the Gulf of Chihli in the Yellow Sea, about five hundred miles north of Shanghai, in the province of Shantung. (Chefoo is now known as Yantai.) On the rising ground looking out across a bay, there stood a group of neo-Gothic buildings erected in 1896 by Hudson Taylor, the founder of the China Inland Mission (C.I.M.). For nearly fifty years these buildings were the home of a great English boarding school - the Chefoo School - where children of missionaries from all over China and children of other foreign residents received a Bible-oriented, English "public school" education up to Oxford Certificate level. The school was established in 1881.
Estimate / sale price does not include buyer's premium (currently 22% including GST) which is added to hammer price. All bids are executed on the understanding that the Terms & Conditions of sale have been read and accepted. For information on grading and estimates please refer to the Buying at Auction advice.
Quick find
View a lot by number and sale.
Adjacent lots
Lot 3682
BELGIUM, J.D.Van der Waals, 1911, physical chemist awarded Nobel Prize in 1910, in bronze (65mm) ...
Estimate $80
Lot 3683
CHINA, Harbin, Masonic lodge founders medal in gold gilt (29mm), by F.T.Widmer, Boston, Sungari Lodge, ...
Estimate $100
Lot 3684 This lot
CHINA, (C)hina (I)nland (M)ission (B)oy's (S)chool, prize medals in silver, shield shape (35mm x 30mm), ...
Estimate $100
Lot 3685
ETHIOPIA, silver plated bronze medal 42mm, issued EE1949 (1957), plain edge, loop removed from edge, ...
Estimate $80
Lot 3686
FRANCE, Medals Illustrating Roman History, struck c1750, in bronze (31mm) by Jean Dassier, featuring Papirius ...
Estimate $120