Lot Archive

Lot

№ 613

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8 December 1994

Hammer Price:
£70

Captain Matthew Webb, The First man to Swim the English Channel, silver portrait prize medal obverse bust left reverse five line engraved inscription “Presented by her Brother to Mrs Chapman on her Birthday 1888” (Eimer 1696). Fine to very fine, but has been brooch mounted, extremely rare

The first named Webb medal to be seen by the cataloguer, presumably the presentation on the reverse is to Capt. Webb’s sister