HUDDERSFIELD, Huddersfield Textile Society, silver award medals by Fattorini (4), named (Awarded to Herbert Thickett as Most Successful Student in Cloth Finishing, Huddersfield Technical College, 1924; Awarded to Kenneth Newsome as Most Successful Student in Woollen Yarn Manufacture, Huddersfield Technical College, 1930; Presented to John Maude for Worsted Yarn Manufacture, Weaving & Design, 1941; Presented to James A. Fitton for Weaving & Design, 1942), all 45mm, silver total wt 175.09g; Huddersfield Technical College, Albert Hirst Prize in Wool Textiles, a silver award medal by W.J. Dingley, named (1941-42, John Maude), 32mm; City and Guilds of London Institute, Final and Intermediate award medals after L.C. Wyon for Pinches (2), silver and bronze, named (James Albert Fitton, Woollen and Worsted Weaving, Division I, Designing Course, First Prize, 1942…Finishing Course, First Prize, 1943), both 51mm (MJP p. 27); MANCHESTER, The Textile Institute, a bronze Services medal by J. Pinches, named (Frank Kendall, 1952), 51mm [8]. Extremely fine and better; six in fitted cases
£100-150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals of Yorkshire from the Collection Formed by the Late Richard Law.

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Frank Kendall, from Bradford, was vice-president of the Textile Institute when the body moved into its new headquarters in Blackfriars street, Manchester, on 4 April 1952