Music, WARWICKSHIRE, Holders Concert Hall, Birmingham, a silver Music award, unsigned, head of Music right within wreath, rev. wreath, named (Presented to Mr Fred Gartside by a Few Private Friends for the abilities he displayed as a Comic Patter Singer in the Grand Amateur Contest at Holders Concert Hall on Octr. 12th 1866), 44mm; Trinity College London, Birmingham Centre, a silver award medal, unsigned, named (V.T. Pearce, Int. Violin 87, Dec. 1898), 26mm; Midland Musical Competition Festival, a silver award medal by Vaughton, named (1920, Contralto Solo (Inter), May Round, 1st Prize), 38mm; Birmingham & Midland Institute, Martineau Prize for Distinction in Theory of Music, a silver medal by Johnson Matthey, named (Emily Ellis, Harmony and Counterpoint, 1922), hallmarked Birmingham 1922, 51mm; Trinity College of Music London, Birmingham Centre, a silver award medal by Johnson Matthey, named (Marie W. Warner, Senior Theory 95, June 1931), hallmarked Birmingham 1931, 29mm [5]. Last extremely fine, others about very fine and better but first with rim nicks; all except Martineau medal with means of suspension £70-90

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, British Medals from the Collection of James Spencer.

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