Sporting & General Medals, Badges & Awards - Politica
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Lot 2905 SESSION 10 (11.30AM WEDNESDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER) Sporting & General Medals, Badges & Awards - Political
Estimate $750
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $650
CROMWELL, fob medal, hand engraved in gold (15ct, 13.2g, 29x29mm), no maker, ring top suspension, reverse inscribed 'Presented/to/Mr. E.Murrell, Mayor/Cromwell/By the Councillors/on the occasion/of His/Golden Wedding/July 10th/1911'. Brushed on reverse, very fine.
Edward K. Murrell was born in Aberdeen in 1837 and educated at Kirkwall in the Orkney Islands. He served as Mayor of Cromwell from 1899 until 1905 when he retired. He served a second term after coming out of retirement from 1909 to 1913.
He finally retired from public life in 1921 to Christchurch and died in 1925 at the age of eighty nine. His wife, Mary Ann having died in 1912 at the age of seventy, only a year after their Golden Wedding Anniversary.
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