DEVON, Devonport Classical and Mathematical School, a silver award medal by T. Halliday for E. Ramsey, arm watering sapling oak, all within garter, rev. named (Gulielmus S. Sanders Versus Latine Scribendo Ante Condiscipulos Meruit A.D. 1840) 48mm, 41.30g. A well-struck medal, obverse with proof-like fields, very fine to extremely fine, extremely rare £90-£120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Educational Prize Medals from the Collection of the late Mike Roberts.

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An advertisement from the Western Courier in 1850 states ‘The object of this School is to give such a sound Classical, Mathematical, and General Education [as] will enable the Pupils to enter the Universities, the Royal Naval and Military Colleges, the Liberal Professions...’