Auction Catalogue

19 June 2024

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Lot

№ 667

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19 June 2024

Hammer Price:
£180

Coronation 1911, unnamed as issued; Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, unnamed as issued; Jubilee 1935 (3), two unnamed as issued, the third contemporarily engraved ‘ 2204059 Sapper P. Lomax. Royal Engineers.’, about extremely fine (5) £120-£160

Sold with a Buckingham Palace Certificate for one of the unnamed 1935 Jubilee Medals, named to Sydney Blythe, with accompanying newspaper cutting describing him as ‘Worthing’s Oldest Serving Postman’, who started work as a temporary messenger in 1887, and served at the Worthing Post Office for 47 years’ continuous service, save for two years in France with the Post Office Rifles.