The Preston-Morley Buckinghamshire Collection: Commemorative Medals

THE PRESTON-MORLEY BUCKINGHAMSHIRE COLLECTION, Mid-Bucks Motor Cycling Club, a bronze enamel award medal by Vaughton, swan chained, rev. wreath, named (D.G. Seaton, Hillclimb, 1922), 26mm; Mid-Bucks Motor Cycling Club, a silver award medal, winged crest, rev. wreath, named (Prosser Memorial Trial, 11-9-32, C.N. Rogers), hallmarked ag co ld Birmingham 1931, 30mm; Mid-Bucks Motor Cycling Club, a silver and blue enamel badge, unsigned, Aylesbury duck in reeds, legend on garter around, 27mm [3]. Second practically as struck, others very fine and better, all rare (£50-70)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Preston-Morley Buckinghamshire Collection: Commemorative Medals.

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Provenance:
1922 bt Eden Coins March 1990.
*1931 bt C. Eimer March 1996.
Undated bt G. Stewart December 1996.

The first item is believed to have been awarded for the club’s closed-road hillclimb at Kop Hill, near Princes Risborough. Kop Hill was one of a number of stretches of unmetalled public roads used by local motor clubs up and down the country for competitions both before and after the Great War, such events attracted large crowds. Unfortunately, a spectator fatality when a car crashed into the crowd at an event on Kop Hill in 1925 led to the banning of such events on the public road