Medals of Yorkshire from the Collection Formed by the Late Richard Law

BRIGHOUSE, Brighouse & District Sunday School Union, United Demonstration, 1891, a white metal medal by J. Walker, 35mm; George V, Coronation, 1911, Borough of Brighouse, a white metal medal by Fattorini, 38mm (W & E 5090H); HOLMFIRTH, Centenary of the Hepworth Wesleyan Sunday School, 1926, a white metal medal, unsigned, 32mm; HUDDERSFIELD, The Majority of Sir John Ramsden, 1852, white metal medals (2), unsigned, both 38mm (BHM 2472); Opening of Beaumont Park, 1883, medals (5), by Pearce & Sons, white metal, 38mm (BHM 3151), unsigned (4, two types), in bronze (2), white metal (2, one bronzed), 38 and 33mm; Fine Art & Industrial Exhibition, Technical School & Mechanics Institute, 1883, white metal medals by Pearce & Sons (3), all 38mm (BHM 3152); Victoria, Golden Jubilee, 1887, J.H. Sterry & Co, white metal medals by J. Carter (3), all 45mm (W & E 2051D); Victoria, Diamond Jubilee, 1897, Borough of Huddersfield, medals by Brookes & Adams (2), in copper and white metal, both 38mm (W & E – [3048 obv./3620L rev.]), unsigned (5), in white metal, all 38mm (W & E 3620L); Golden Jubilee of the Scape Goat Hill Baptist Sunday School, 1900, a white metal medal, unsigned, 38mm; Edward VII, Coronation, 1902, Huddersfield, white metal medals by the The Mint, Birmingham (5, three gilt), all 35mm (W & E 4435H.2, 3); St Paul’s Church Schools, 1907, a white metal medal, unsigned, 39mm; Peace, 1919, Corporation of Huddersfield, white metal medals (3), unsigned, all 38mm; Coming of Age of Huddersfield Mission, 1928, a white metal medal, unsigned, 32mm; Brook Motors Ltd, One Million Motors, 1950, a white metal medal, unsigned, 35mm; KIRKHEATON, Victoria, Golden Jubilee, 1887, Kirkheaton Church Restoration, a white metal medal by J. Moore, 38mm (W & E –); LONGWOOD, Opening of Broadbent’s Delph Playground, 1897, medals (2), in copper and white metal, unsigned, both 32mm; MARSDEN, Centenary of Marsden Congregational Church, 1890, a white metal medal by A. Fenwick, 38mm; SCAMMONDEN, Pole Moor Baptist Chapel, white metal medals (2), unsigned, one of Victoria, other for Edward VII Coronation, both 32mm; SLAITHWAITE, Visit of George V and Queen Mary, 1912, a bronze medal by Fattorini, 38mm (W & E 5443C.3); SOWERBY BRIDGE, Jubilee of West End Congregational Church, 1890, a gilt white metal medal, unsigned, 39mm [43]. Many very fine, some better, several rare; a few in cases of issue £150-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals of Yorkshire from the Collection Formed by the Late Richard Law.

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Sir John William Ramsden (1831-1914), MP for the West Riding 1859-65, High Sheriff of Yorkshire 1868, Lord of the Manor of Huddersfield. Ernest Brook founded his business making electric motors in 1904 and by the early 1950s was operating out of ten factories in Huddersfield