| Noonans (formerly Dix Noonan Webb) > Auction 284 | Auction date: 22 November 2023 |
| Lot number: 203 Price realized: 380 GBP (Approx. 473 USD / 436 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Medals of the West Indies British Honduras, Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, President's Medal, a silver award by W. Wyon, bust of Prince Albert right, rev. legend around and within wreath, edge named (To Robert Temple Esqr [Chief Justice of British Honduras] for his paper on 'British Honduras, its history, trade, and natural resources'), 56mm (Roehrs 1516, this piece; BHM 2285; E 1420). Two rim cuts on reverse and polished in the past, otherwise very fine [certified and graded by NGC as AU Details, Polished] £300-£400 --- Provenance: R.J. Ford Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 79, 15 October 1990, lot 537; E. Roehrs Collection, DNW Auction M11, 13 July 2011, lot 1516 The paper was read to the Society in 1847. |  |
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| Noonans (formerly Dix Noonan Webb) > Auction 288 | Auction date: 6 February 2024 |
| Lot number: 1262 Price realized: 220 GBP (Approx. 277 USD / 258 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: British Historical Medals from Various Properties Department of Science and Art, Queen's Medal, a bronze award by W. Wyon, edge named (William Burnet, Edinburgh, Stage 3B, 1865), 55mm (E 1511); George V, Coronation, 1911, a bronze medal by B. Mackennal, 51mm (BHM 4022); Investiture of the Prince of Wales, 1911, a silver medal by W. Goscombe John, 35mm (BHM 4079); Board of Education, National Medal, a silver award by B. Mackennal, edge named (James Moxon, Designs for Wineglasses and Tumblers, 1914), 51mm [4]. Good very fine or better, first two cleaned; third in original case £100-£150 |  |
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| Noonans (formerly Dix Noonan Webb) > Auction 283 | Auction date: 14 November 2023 |
| Lot number: 1296 Price realized: 800 GBP (Approx. 996 USD / 919 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: British Historical Medals from Various Properties Great Exhibition, Hyde Park, 1851, Juror's Medal, a copper award by W. Wyon and G.G. Adams, conjoined busts of Victoria and Prince Albert left, dolphins below, trident behind, rev. seated figure of Industry attended by Commerce, receiving wreath from Fame, edge named (Major Boyd, Interpreter to Jurors), 64mm (Allen HP-A040; BHM 2464; E 1457). About extremely fine £600-£800 |  |
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| Noonans (formerly Dix Noonan Webb) > Auction 291 | Auction date: 5 March 2024 |
| Lot number: 1163 Price realized: 1,900 GBP (Approx. 2,419 USD / 2,225 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: British Historical Medals from Various Properties Eton College, Duke of Newcastle Medal, 1833, a gold award by W. Wyon, bust of Duke right, rev. legend within wreath, edge named (Benjamin Fossett Lock 1867), 36mm, 31.41g (BHM 1646; MJP p.39). A few hairlines and light scratch in reverse field, otherwise about extremely fine; in contemporary fitted but mismatched case £2,000-£2,600 --- Benjamin Fossett Lock (1847-1922), attended Dorchester Grammar School, and was elected a King's scholar at Eton, and in due course a scholar of King's Cambridge, where he took his degree in 1871. He was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1873, and joined the Chancery Bar, the Western Circuit, and the Dorset Sessions; he also practised as an equity draftsman and conveyancer. In 1913 he was appointed County Court Judge of Circuit 16 (East Riding and parts of North and West Ridings of Yorkshire). |  |
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| Noonans (formerly Dix Noonan Webb) > Auction 284 | Auction date: 22 November 2023 |
| Lot number: 231 Price realized: 1,000 GBP (Approx. 1,246 USD / 1,147 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Medals of the West Indies Great Britain, Great Exhibition, Hyde Park, 1851, Juror's Medal, a copper award by W. Wyon and G.G. Adams, conjoined busts of Victoria and Prince Albert left, dolphins below, trident behind, rev. seated figure of Industry attended by Commerce, receiving wreath of Fame, edge named (Sir H.T. de la Beche), 64mm (Allen A040; BHM 2464; Roehrs 1719, this piece). Good extremely fine £600-£800 --- Provenance: A Collection of 1851 Great Exhibition Medals, DNW Auction 45, 1 March 2000, lot 598; E. Roehrs Collection, DNW Auction M11, 13 July 2011, lot 1719 Sir Henry Thomas de la Beche, CB, FRS (1796-1855), geologist and chairman of the Mining, Quarrying, Metallurgical Operations and Mineral Products jury at the Great Exhibition. De la Beche's lifelong interest in geology was first kindled as a boy when he lived in Lyme Regis. He became a Fellow of the Geological Society of London in 1817 and was elected as its president in 1847. He wrote several works on geology and was the mastermind behind the compilation of the Ordnance Survey map of Britain, a project begun in 1832. He founded the Geological Museum in Jermyn Street, London, opened by Prince Albert in 1851, and funded the issue of two medals – the de la Beche medal of the School of Mines (BHM 2264), instituted as an annual prize in 1857, two years after his death, and the de la Beche Good Conduct Medal of 1841 (BHM 2002), awarded to employees on his paternal estate at Halse Hall, Clarendon, on the island of Jamaica. |  |
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| Noonans (formerly Dix Noonan Webb) > Auction 292 | Auction date: 6 March 2024 |
| Lot number: 441 Price realized: 1,000 GBP (Approx. 1,274 USD / 1,169 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: The Silich Collection of Historical and Art Medals Wyon, William (British, 1795-1851); b. Birmingham ENGLAND, Sir Francis Chantrey, 1846, a silver medal by W. Wyon for the Art Union of London, bust right, rev. James Watt seated left, a drawing of a plan resting on his lap, on which he rests a compass held in his right hand, from Chantrey's sculptured memorial in Handsworth Church, Birmingham, edge impressed art-union of london 1843, 55mm, 75.35g (Beaulah 1; BHM 2227; BDM VIII, 683; E 1381). Extremely fine and richly toned, very rare; perhaps only 30 struck and awarded as prizes by the Union in 1847 £300-£400 --- Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey (1781-1841) was the leading portrait sculptor in Regency Britain. Intended as the first medal in the Art Union of London series and sanctioned in 1843, it was not until late in 1846 that Wyon, until then heavily involved in producing Indian campaign medals, was able to finalise a working set of dies. Medals were struck in two batches, in 1846 and 1847. |  |
