Coins, Paper Money, Tokens and Historical Medals

German Gymnastic Society, London, a silver award medal by Waterlows Ltd, named (1st Prize for Middle Weight Boxing, won by H. Windett, December 1881), 51mm (D & W 155/418); Merchant Venturers’ Technical College, Bristol, 1911, a bronze award medal by H. Dubois, named (F.H. Hunt, Typography), 50mm; Queen Elizabeth’s Hospital, Bristol, a bronze award medal signed B.C.A., named (E.V. Colliver, for Shooting, 1929), 51mm [3]. Extremely fine, first scarce £80-100

In the 2nd Amateur Boxing Association of England’s National Championship, held in London in April 1882, Harry Windett was defeated for the middleweight title by A.H. Cumick, from Clapton, even though the former “had the best of it when at close quarters until towards the finish” (The Times, 17 April 1882). By 1891 Windett had become a boxing referee