World Historical Medals

Lot 1801    SESSION 8 (2.30PM WEDNESDAY 24TH MARCH)    World Historical Medals

Estimate $100
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $100

BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA, medalets etc, Union 1910, in white metal (38mm) and (31mm) by Vaughtons Birmingham; 31st May (32mm), World War I, Pretoria Citizens Service Medal 1914-19 in bronze (36mm); Peace 1919 in white metal (32mm), Johannesburg 1914-19 in copper (32mm); Cape Town Visit of Prince of Wales 1925, reverse ship CDG Hoop in copper (32mm); George V and Queen Mary Jubilee 1935 in gilt bronze (32mm) another with integral loop; Empire Exhibition 1936 Johannesburg 1886 in gilt brass (32mm) Boksburg Jubilee 1887-1937 in gilt bronze (31mm); Coronation 1937 in gilt bronze (32mm); Liberty Cavalcade 1942 in blackened bronze stick pin mount (25mm); Royal Visit 1947 in gilt bronze (32mm) also cased pair of medals of same design in silver and bronze; Centenary 1855-1955 in gilt bronze (32mm) most of the foregoing struck by the South African Mint in Pretoria; Pretoria University Calendar medal 1959 in oxidised silver plate (40mm); Durban Carnival 1974 in aluminium (39mm); Port Elizabeth S.A. Section British Empire Exhibition 1924 in brass, bracteate (32mm) H.M.L.S. Union on ribbon under tank in brass bracteate (28mm) pierced at top. Very fine-uncirculated. (21)

Ex W.J.Noble Sale 61B (lot 1638) and Mark E.Freehill Collections. The last four ex R.J. Ford (lot 910 part) Collection, most of the others ex D. Atkinson Collection (Auckland 1971).