Lot Archive

Lot

№ 1240

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17 December 2007

Hammer Price:
£50

General Synod of the Church of Ireland, Religious Knowledge, Intermediate Schools, a silver award medal, unsigned, legend, named (Senior Division, Kate E.L. McCleery, Rochelle, 1884), rev. legend in wreath, 33mm; Irish Food and Cookery Exhibition, a silver award medal by Fattorini, cruciform shields, rev. food products and fauna, central tablet named (V. Marino Hansen, 1912), hallmarked Birmingham 1910, 41mm; Feis Ceoil [Festival of Music], a silver badge, crowned harp surrounded by four shields, rev. wreath, named in Gaelic, awarded 1941, hallmarked h&h Dublin 1941, 29mm [3]. First about very fine and pierced, second extremely fine and toned, last very fine (£30-40)

Feis Ceoil is an annual Irish cultural festival of music and dance, first organised in 1897