Historical Medals, Visit of Queen Victoria to Sheffield to Open the New Town Hall, 1897, white metal medals (3), by H. Jenkins & Son for the Duke of Norfolk, Mayor, 32mm (W & E 3156D.1), by Spink, 51mm (W & E 3476G.1; BHM 3604), unsigned, 39mm (W & E 3608D.1); Welcome by the Children of Sheffield to Queen Victoria in Norfolk Park, 1897, white metal medals by the Mint, Birmingham (4), all 39mm (W & E 3275N.1; BHM 3605); St Mary’s Church Sunday School, Sheffield, 1897, a gilt white metal medal, unsigned, for Revd. R.H. Hammond, Vicar, 32mm (W & E –); Children of Nether Hallam, 1897, a bronze medal, unsigned, for Councillor A. Muir Wilson, 33mm [9]. Second and last extremely fine, others generally very fine and pierced for suspension; three with original ribands £70-£90

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Sheffield Tokens and Paranumismatica formed by Tim Hale.

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Queen Victoria, accompanied by Princess Christian of Denmark and the Duke of Connaught, travelled from Windsor Castle to Sheffield on 21 May 1897 to open the new Town Hall, built at a cost of some £130,000. The royal party transferred to Norfolk Park to be serenaded by some 50,000 schoolchildren, and then the Cammell steelworks, before the Queen proceeded to Balmoral. Henry Fitzalan Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk (1847-1917), philanthropist, mayor of Sheffield 1895-7. Arnold Muir Wilson (1857-1909), solicitor, mountaineer and pioneer motorist, elected to Sheffield City Council 1883, stood as Conservative candidate for Sheffield Attercliffe on two occasions, both unsuccessfully