Prize, Training Ship, Nursing & Other Medals from the James N. Spencer Collection

6 July 2004

Lot No 1000

Barrington-Kennett Trophy Medal (A/A Schultz L. W. J.), 26mm., silver, one slip bar, ‘Rugby 1939’, complete with top bar, in case of issue, nearly extremely fine £100-140

6 July 2004

Lot No 1001

Boy Scouts Association Medal of Merit, 4th issue (1935-66), (E. Davies, 18.1.67), gilt, complete with brooch bar; Royal Army Temperance Association, Award of Merit (R.A.T.A.14), (Bombdr. Mears, R.F.A., Newcastle 1905), silver, complete with ornate brooch bar; Liberation of Italy Souvenir Medal, 40mm., bronze,...

6 July 2004

Lot No 1002

Queen’s Institute of District Nursing Badge, 1st Class for Distinguished Service to the...

6 July 2004

Lot No 1003

Queen Victoria’s Jubilee Institute for Nurses Badge, 3rd Class for Queen’s Nurses, 32 x 20mm., bronze, reverse inscribed, ‘Ethel B. Holmes, Queen’s Nurse, Oct. 1914 - July 1923’; Royal British Nursing Association Badge, bronze, reverse inscribed, ‘Helen D. Cargill, 4930’, with integral brooch bar;...

6 July 2004

Lot No 1004

Birmingham & District Midwives Association Badge, reverse inscribed, ‘Gertrude Prew, 10th June 1922, No. 57555’, 32mm., bronze, with integral brooch bar inscribed, ‘No.57555’; Birmingham United Hospital - Queen Elizabeth Hospital Badge, reverse inscribed, ‘Marjorie Walton’, octagonal, 32 x 29mm., gilt...

6 July 2004

Lot No 1005

Dundee Royal Infirmary Badge, reverse inscribed, ‘C. C. Park, 1939’, 37mm., bronze open-work badge, with integral brooch bar; City of Salford Hope Hospital Medal, reverse with inscription in raised letters (name engraved), ‘Awarded to Dorothy Biddle with a Certificate after Training’, oval, 38 x 30mm.,...

6 July 2004

Lot No 1006

Three: D. E. Phillips, Hertfordshire County Council Nursing Service British War and Victory...

6 July 2004

Lot No 1007

St. James’s Hospital Leeds Medal, coat-of-arms, reverse inscribed, ‘Alice Dixon, 1946-1949’, 29mm., 9ct. gold and enamel, hallmarks for Birmingham 1949, ring suspension; Bradford Royal Infirmary Nurses School Badge, nurse seated, ‘Do the duty which lies nearest thee’; reverse inscription in raised letters...

6 July 2004

Lot No 1008

Charing Cross Hospital Cross, reverse inscribed, ‘Faith M. Gough’, 45 x 45mm., bronze, with ribbon and brooch bar (pin missing); St. Pancras Infirmary Medal, robed saint bearing palm branch, in exergue, ‘Athleta Christi’; reverse inscribed, ‘S.P.I., South, M. Jordan, 13th March 1911’, oval, 38 x 30mm.,...

6 July 2004

Lot No 1009

St. Mary-le-Bone Hospital Medal (2), St. Mary holding the infant Christ; reverse inscribed, ‘Dorothy R. Ruckmoge, 1915-1918’, 38mm., bronze, with brooch bar; another, reverse inscribed, ‘A. Ross, 1928-1931’, with ribbon and brooch bar, very fine (2) £30-50

6 July 2004

Lot No 1010

St. Olave’s Hospital Medal, coat-of-arms; reverse inscribed, ‘D. W. F. Forrest, 1931, 1st Year’, oval, 37 x 27mm., bronze, by Fattorini, Birmingham, ring suspension; Fulham Infirmary Medal, Mary holding the infant Christ; reverse inscribed, ‘F. I. Bowring, May 1913’; 38mm., bronze, ring suspension, with...

6 July 2004

Lot No 1011

St. Mary’s Hospital for Women and Children Plaistow Medal, Mary with the infant Christ; reverse inscribed, ‘W. A. Smith, for Services Rendered, 1924’, oval, 48 x 38mm., silver base metal and enamel, with suspension and brooch bars inscribed, ‘Life Governor’, in Hammett, Plaistow case of issue, good very...

6 July 2004

Lot No 1012

Pair: S. Muir, Romford V.C. Hospital Romford V.C. Hospital Medal for Services Rendered, reverse inscribed, ‘S. Muir. Tatters, July 12/30’, 29mm., silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1929; another, reverse inscribed, ‘S. Muir. Tatters, July 13/29’, 29mm., bronze, both with ring suspensions, attached to...

6 July 2004

Lot No 1013

Scottish Women’s Hospitals Medal 1914, partially clothed man and woman together with a naked skeletal figure; reverse: ‘N.U.W.S.S. 1914 Scottish Women’s Hospitals’ (Hannah Frances Ivens), 32mm., bronze, with fragmentary silk plaid ribbon, good very fine £30-50

6 July 2004

Lot No 1014

Pair: Doctor R. H. Dix, Durham and Sunderland Volunteer Aid Detachment Durham V.A.D. Workers Medal, for Services Rendered during the Great War, reverse inscribed, ‘141 Dr Richard Henry Dix’, 33mm., bronze, with ribbon and brooch bar; Sunderland Hartley Hall V.A.D. Hospital Medal 1914-19, reverse inscribed,...

6 July 2004

Lot No 1015

Swansea General & Eye Hospital Badge, reverse inscribed, ‘260 A. E. Phillips. October 1933’, 29mm., bronze, with integral brooch bar, in Elkington case of issue; Glamorgan County Council Nursing Medal, by Fattorini, Bradford, reverse impressed, ‘365 Laura Burke, 1916’, 50 x 33mm., bronze, ring suspension,...

6 July 2004

Lot No 1016

Pair: Elsie Ivett, Bethnal Green and Myddelton Square Hospitals, London Myddelton Square Hospital, Maternity Nursing Association Medal, Mary, with hands in an attitude of prayer, on her lap, the infant Christ, reverse: ‘Myddelton Square, Founded 1896’ and engraved, ‘Elsie Ivett’, oval, 46 x 33mm.,...

6 July 2004

Lot No 1017

London County Council Home Nursing Cross (2) reverse inscribed, ‘Hester Mackenzie, 6.1.10’; another, ‘Nellie Mabel Jellis, 6.1.10’; another, for First Aid, ‘Kathleen Dennis, 15.7.18’, these gilt metal and enamel; The Lion Hospital Aid Society Medal for Services Rendered, reverse inscribed, ‘Presented...

6 July 2004

Lot No 1018

British Red Cross Society & Order of St. John Medallion, twin shields of the two organizations, reverse with inscription (name engraved) within a wreath, ‘Presented to The Mayoress of Shoreditch, A Token of Appreciation and Thanks from the Joint War Committee 1915’, 50mm., bronze, extremely fine £40-60

6 July 2004

Lot No 1019

St. John Hospital Southport Medallion, obverse: Cross of the Order, reverse with inscription (name engraved), ‘St. John Hospital Southport, The Grange and The Woodlands, Presented to Emmie Walker for Services during The Great War 1914-1919’, 51mm., bronze, nearly extremely fine £30-50

6 July 2004

Lot No 1020

Order of St. John Ambulance Association Re-Examination Medal (2), 4th issue, ‘John Cooper, No.45525’, 37mm., bronze; another, ‘437642 Jack King’, 26mm., bronze; Date Labels (32) - twenty-nine attached, dated 1921-1951, most numbered ‘234276’; Priory for Wales Re-Examination Medal, ‘John G. Merrey,...

6 July 2004

Lot No 1021

South Eastern & Chatham Railway, St. John Ambulance Association Service Medal, for 7 years, ‘John Hopkins’, 38mm., bronze, with ribbon, Ref: Tozer p.74, good very fine £40-60

6 July 2004

Lot No 1022

Southern Railway, St. John Ambulance Association Service Medal, for 7 years, ‘Harry Hooper’, 1938’, 35mm., bronze, complete with ribbon and ‘7 Years’ brooch bar, Ref: Tozer p.74/75, nearly extremely fine £30-50

6 July 2004

Lot No 1023

Midland Railway Ambulance Tribute Medal 1914-19, ‘W. Branston, R.A.M.C.’, 30 x 22mm., bronze, ring suspension, very fine £20-30