| Noonans (formerly Dix Noonan Webb) > Auction 288 | Auction date: 6 February 2024 |
| Lot number: 1296 Price realized: 110 GBP (Approx. 138 USD / 129 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: World Historical Medals from Various Properties COURLAND, Death of Maurice of Saxony, 1750, a white metal medal by D. Kam, 56mm; NORWAY, Visit of Kaiser Wilhelm II to Christiania, 1890, a bronze medal by I. Throndsen, 31mm; PORTUGAL, University of Coimbra, 1872, a bronze medal by J. Molarinho, 54mm; SOUTH AFRICA, Pretoria Agricultural Association, a bronze prize medal, unsigned, rev. named (Tangyes Ld., Pump, 1898), 43mm; SWITZERLAND, General Dufour, 1866, a bronze medal by A. Bovy, 60mm (BDM I, 245); Geneva, a silver prize medal for Literature by Chaponniere, undated, 41mm [6]. Varied state £100-£150 |  |
Match 1:
| Noonans (formerly Dix Noonan Webb) > Auction 288 | Auction date: 6 February 2024 |
| Lot number: 1292 Price realized: 90 GBP (Approx. 113 USD / 105 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: World Historical Medals from Various Properties AUSTRIA, 80th Birthday of Hans, Graf Wilczek, 1917, a bronze medal by J. Tautenhayn, 66mm; PRUSSIA, Battles of Rosbach and Lissa, 1757, a cast bronze medal, unsigned, 37mm; SWITZERLAND, St Nicholas of Flüe, a white metal medal, unsigned and undated, 36mm [3]. Very fine or better £80-£100 |  |
Match 2:
| Noonans (formerly Dix Noonan Webb) > Auction 283 | Auction date: 14 November 2023 |
| Lot number: 1280 Price realized: 110 GBP (Approx. 137 USD / 126 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: British Historical Medals from Various Properties Foundation of the City of London School, 1834, a silver medal by B. Wyon, 58mm (BHM 1680); International Exhibition, London, 1872, a white metal medal by J.S. & A.B. Wyon, 30mm (BHM 2943); Royal Jubilee Exhibition, Manchester, 1887, a bronze medal by Heaton, 45mm (BHM 3346) [3]. First a later striking with matt surfaces, extremely fine, in fitted case; second extremely fine, in original card box; last once gilt but much of gilding now worn away, otherwise extremely fine, in fitted case £80-£100 |  |
Match 3:
| Noonans (formerly Dix Noonan Webb) > Auction 283 | Auction date: 14 November 2023 |
| Lot number: 1337 Price realized: 20 GBP (Approx. 25 USD / 23 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: British Historical Medals from Various Properties Freemasonry, Port of Hercules Lodge (No 4626), a silver and enamel badge by Spencer, London, named (Presented to W. Bro: H.W. Mills P.M., in recognition of his Services as W.M., 1935-1936), hallmarked Birmingham 1935, 118 x 44mm; George V, Silver Jubilee, 1935, Isle of Man, a plated brass medal, unsigned, 33mm (W & E 5698C.1); George VI, Coronation, 1937, Isle of Man, a plated brass medal by Vaughton, 33mm (W & E 7370D.3); Elizabeth II, Coronation, 1953, Isle of Man, a white metal medal, unsigned, 33mm (W & E 8025E); together with a silver coronation medalet of Edward VII, and a Goole Co-op milk check [6]. First with minor damage to enamel otherwise good very fine, others very fine or better but one with some surface corrosion £40-£50 |  |
Match 4:
| Noonans (formerly Dix Noonan Webb) > Auction 288 | Auction date: 6 February 2024 |
| Lot number: 1319 Price realized: 400 GBP (Approx. 503 USD / 468 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: World Historical Medals from Various Properties The honours and awards bestowed upon Edwin Newman, the American newscaster and journalist who covered the attack on Pearl Harbor, the funeral of George VI, the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, and who enjoyed a long career with NBC USA, University of Missouri, School of Journalism, Honor Award, 1975, a light bronze medal by T.H. Jones for Medallic Art Co., named (Edwin Newman), 62mm; The Christopher Award, 1980, a light bronze award medal, unsigned, for Medallic Art Co., named (Edwin Newman, 1983); FRANCE, Légion d'Honneur, Chevalier's badge by Arthus-Bertrand [awarded 31 December 1971] [3]. Extremely fine, first with loop for suspension; first and last in cases of issue, the badge with award certificate addressed to Mr Edwin Newman, N.B.C. Room 520, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York £300-£400 --- Edwin Harold Newman (1919-2010), b. New York; educ. George Washington High School and University of Wisconsin, graduating in political science, 1940; began his career as a copy boy for International News Service; served as a signal officer in the US Navy, 1942-5; reporter for United Press, 1945-6; moved as a freelancer to CBS News, 1947, then full-time from 1952 based in Europe, covering the funeral of George VI from the battlements of Windsor Castle, the Suez crisis of 1956 and the accession of Charles de Gaulle in 1958; returned to the US in 1961 as a regular on the Today show; made the first announcement on NBC of President Kennedy's death and anchored the television coverage of the Six-Day war in 1967, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, the 1973 Vietnam ceasefire and the aftermath of the attempt on President Ronald Reagan's life in 1981. A prolific interviewer, his subjects included Emperor Hirohito, Ingmar Bergman, Muhammad Ali, David Ben-Gurion and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, while he also moderated numerous political debates between the likes of Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale. Leaving NBC in January 1984, he briefly hosted Saturday Night Live, remained in demand as a political interviewer for other broadcasters and cable networks, and played himself in four films, including The Pelican Brief (1993). After moving to England in 2007 to be near his daughter, he died of pneumonia in Oxford on 13 August 2010. |  |
Match 5:
| Noonans (formerly Dix Noonan Webb) > Auction 291 | Auction date: 5 March 2024 |
| Lot number: 1158 Price realized: 170 GBP (Approx. 216 USD / 199 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: British Historical Medals from Various Properties War for the Independence of Italy, 1860, a bronze medal by T.R. Pinches, bust of Garibaldi right, rev. two ships at sea, 41mm; Centenary of the Stockton & Darlington Railway, 1925, a bronze medal by G. Bayes, 45mm (BHM 4205; E 2001b); David Lloyd George, a silver medal by F. Bowcher for Spink, 45mm (BHM 4130; E 1959b); National Association of Colliery Managers, a bronze award medal by Vaughton, named (Awarded to Mr A. Beeston for his paper on "Surface Condensing Plant" May 1914); National Emergency Medal, 1926, a bronze award by E. Gillick, 51mm (BHM 4210); Oxford Old English Game Fowl Club, 1935, an unsigned bronze medal, 51mm; Liverpool, 1796, a gilt bronze medal by A. Seward, lunatic hospital, 43mm; SOUTH AFRICA, Visit of Joseph Chamberlain, 1903, a plated bronze medal by J. Fray, 51mm (BHM 3888; E 1876) [7]. Generally extremely fine, all cased £120-£150 |  |
