Commemorative, Historical and Art Medals

The Library Association, Carnegie Medal Awarded for the Best Children’s Book of the Year, a silver-gilt award by the Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co Ltd, standing robed female figure, rev. legend, named (Awarded to Kitty Barne for “Visitors from London”, 1940), 51mm. Extremely fine; in brown case of issue £30-40

Marion Catherine Barne (1883-1961), who lived in Sussex for most of her life, served in the WVS and helped to house child evacuees in the county during World War II; the title of her prize-winning book reflects a story about evacuees from London in 1939