MEDALS & MILITARIA followed by COUNTRY PURSUITS Friday 11th June at 10am On View Thursday 10th 10am - 7pm and from 9am on the morning of the sale Results available online approximately one hour following the sale Buyer’s Premium charged on all lots at 22.5% plus VAT Free Live bidding available through our website Front cover: Lot 2294 Image this page: Lot 2606 Glenn Pearl Chartered Surveyors Tel: 01284 748 625 Land & Estate Agents Email: Auctioneers & Valuers [email protected] 150 YEARS est. 1869 www.lsk.co.uk C The Damon Murrin Collection Lots 2001-2090 comprise the Membership Secretary and Damon Murrin Collection of Treasurer. He accumulated a vast medals, souvenirs and ephemera knowledge about the subject, which relating to Great Exhibitions, is palpable throughout his personal International Expositions and World collection of medals, postcards, Fairs from the 1801 French books, leaflets, ephemera, and other Napoleonic Exposition 'Progress of memorabilia. All of his treasures Lots 2001 the Arts' onwards. have been kept in immaculate order 2001 and sorted into individually Franco-British Exhibition, London 1908, a square Damon's widow Tatiana has shared labelled boxes all chronological advertising medal for Levallois Perret, struck in graphite, some of Damon's history and the order with the very first obv; Le Carbone in scroll above legend, rev; City arms of Paris, in fitted case. (1) development of his interest in medal dedicated to 1801 French collecting with us, which you can Napoleonic Exposition “Progress of Le Carbone (later Carbone Lorraine) was a French manufacturing company founded in 1891 that still trades read on our website. As Tatiana has the Arts” to the most recent one, today under the name Mersen it specialises in the use of said “There were three of us in the relating to the 1992 Universal graphite in electrical applications. marriage: Damon, I and his Exposition of Seville. Damon made £30-50 collection, and I can understand his journey to Seville that year and why. Once I started delving into he liked sharing his experience of 2002 London Exhibition 1862, prize medal in bronze, awarded the world of his collection, I visiting the port where Columbus to REV. A. DUCANE. CLASS XXIX., engraved by L.C. realised it’s not just a possession, started his voyage towards new Wyon after Daniel Maclise, obv; Britannia courted by it’s a lifestyle.”. Damon was an discoveries. figures of Science, Art, Industry and Agriculture, rev; indefatigable collector and was 1862 Londini Honoris Causa within wreath, cased. (1) always on the quest for material Damon and Tatiana began courting £40-60 relating to the World Exhibition; in 2000 during an educational the 1951 Festival of Britain being exchange for cultural immersion to 2003 Chicago World’s Fair 1893, Columbian Souvenir Medal, one of his favourites. East Anglia from St Petersburg – obv; Columbus within legend, rev; U.S. Man of War, the their first conversation, cover opening to reveal 14 pictures discs each showing a He was an active member of the unsurprisingly, was about the Soviet different exhibit, in the (probably) original case. (1) British World Exhibitions Study Exhibition and achievements of the £30-50 Group, soon becoming their national economy of the USSR! 2004 This is a fascinating collection, which Belgium, Brussels International Exhibition 1910, bronze medal by Godefroid Devreese, obv; figure on horseback ranges around the world and blowing a horn, rev; Fortuna holding a wreath above a through almost two centuries. man’s head, cased. (1) Items include commemorative and £40-60 prize medals awarded to the most advanced scientific, technological and industrial innovations of the time, as well as leaflets, souvenirs and commemoratives, postcards, and even a hand-written diary detailing one Arthur Carter's tour from London to Chicago for the 1893 World's Fair along with accompanying timetables and maps etc! Lots 2003 All lots plus buyers premium of 27% including VAT 2 LACY SCOTT & KNIGHT 2008 2012 London Exhibition 1862, prize medal in bronze, A 1951 Festival of Britain lithograph printed tin awarded to WATERLOW & SONS. CLASS VII., containing various badges and brooches to engraved by L.C. Wayon after Daneil Maclise, include Festival of Britain Bulmer & Lumb Ltd, BIF obv; Britannia courted by figures of Science, Art, Overseas Buyers Pass, London High Court Industry and Agriculture, rev; 1862 Londini Ancient Order of Foresters 1951, British Empire Honoris Causa within wreath, cased. (1) Exhibition 1924, Exposition Paris 1937, New £40-60 York World’s Fair 1939, together with a Festival of Britain oak box with similar contents. 2009 £40-60 France, Paris 1900 Exposition Universelle Internationale bronze medal, designed by 2013 Chaplain, obv; head of the French Republic, rev; France, International Exposition of Arts and male holding a flaming torch being carried by a Techniques in Modern Life, Paris 1937 Lots 2005 winged female with recipients Waterlow & Sons Aluminium Pavilion medal, designed by Pierre- Limited below, stamped bronze to the edge, Alexandre Morlon (1878-1951), together with a 2005 cased. (1) Belgian Brussels 1958 International Exposition World’s Columbian Exposition 1893, also known £60-80 participants medal, in original case. (2) as The Chicago World’s Fair, Official Award £30-50 Medal in bronze to WATERLOW & SONS. by 2010 Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Charles Barber, obv; Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, The Exhibition of 2014 Columbus stepping on to the soil of the New Objects Connected with Art, Manufacture and London International Exhibition 1862 silver World, rev; exposition legend on tablet flanked Science, 1840 pewter medal, obv; Spire of the medal, by Jacob Weiner (1815-1899), obv; by torches with muses above and ship below, Church of St Nicholas, rev; ten line inscription exterior of the exhibition building above cased. (1) above date, together with a matching copper Stamped in the building by H. Uhlhorn of £60-80 example. (2) Grevenbroich Prussia, rev; interior view of the £20-40 building, cased, together with a Colonial and 2006 Indian Exhibition London 1886 bronze medal by Belgium, Brussels International Exposition 1897, 2011 Leonard Charles Wyon (1826-1891), obv; bronze medal, designed by Wolfers, engraved by Spain, Exposicion Universal De Barcelona 1888 portrait bust Prince of Wales, rev; exhibition Jules Lagae, obv; Belgica standing embracing prize medal by E. Arnaun & Castells, obv; co- details within wreath, cased. (2) Industry and the Arts, rev; crowned arms flanked joined busts of Maria Christina of Austria and £30-50 by lions, cased. (1) King Alfonzo XIII, rev; Fame with a trumpet and £30-50 olive branch with vacant name tablet and Cupid 2015 below, having a gilt crown on a red and yellow Austria, Vienna International Exposition 1873, 2007 ribbon, housed in the original Castells leather French participation medal, obv; seated Minerva India, Calcutta International Exhibition 1883-84 case, together with one other matching example holding a wreath within legend with Participation silver medal, obv; crowned bust of Queen with silver crown. (2) De La France below, rev; wreath within Ministere Victoria, rev; award details in wreath as follows £50-80 De L’Agriculture Et Du Commerce, stamped to Awarded to Waterlow & Sons Limited London & the edge cuivre, in leather case of issue marked Calcutta, Plain and watermarked papers for M.R Holden Isaac Et Fils, together with a banknotes, cheques & c., cased. (1) Photographic Society of Ireland 1887 Triennial £40-60 Exhibition medal, obv; arms in quadrilobe within legend, rev; Awarded to Waterlow & Sons Ltd, Class K. No.62, 1887, in fitted black leather case. (2) £30-50 2016 Belgium, 1835 Industrial Exposition medal, engraved by Adolphe Jouvenel (1798-1867), obv; Leopold I, rev; winged figure seated with a tablet between a beehive and a pillar, together with two 1924 British Empire Exhibition medals, each in red leather case of issue and a French 1830 Industre souvenir medal. (4) Lots 2011 Lots 2007 £30-50 All lots plus buyers premium of 27% including VAT LACY SCOTT & KNIGHT 3 2017 2022 2026 London, 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition For Wisbech 1866 Industrial and Fine Art Exhibition, France, 1878 Paris Universal International Services medal, by William Wyon (1795-1851), obv; Wisbech Industrial & Fine Art Exhibition Exposition bronze medal, obv; laureate and obv; bust of Prince Albert, rev; For Services May 1866, rev; central sword with crossed keys draped bust of Marianne left, wearing pearl within wreath and legend, named to the edge T. entwined with rope, together with a pair of necklace, rev; Victory, veil billowing, behind left Hayes, together with two Great Exhibition of the London 1862 International Exhibition medals by above the exposition, head right, holding wreath Industry of All Nations 1851 medals, struck in the John Pinches and one other example by Ottley. in raised right hand and clarion in left; radiate star buildings of the exhibition and two other 1851 (4) above; below, cherub alighting right, head left, Exhibition medals each showing a view of the £30-50 holding aloft tablet, naming Schand Mason & Cie, Crystal Palace. (5) together with one other 1878 Paris Exposition £40-60 2023 bronze medal and a pewter example. (3) France, Paris 1867 International Exposition prize £40-60 2018 medal in bronze by Hubert Ponscarme (1827- Germany, 1844 Berlin International Exposition 1903), obv; Napoleon III, rev; two cherubs 2027 medal, designed and produced by Daniel holding tablet with wreath above and eagle France, Universal Exposition 1878 medal in Freidrich Loos, Lorenz Okensus and Emil below, awarded to Ralph Sneyd Esq, together bronze by Eugene Andre Oudine (1810-1887), Schilling, obv; Germania seated with wreath in with an 1867 For Services Rendered medal in obv; Allegory of the Exposition crowning Arts, hand and sword across her lap, rev; locomotive copper and an 1867 white metal Exposition Commerce, Industry and Agriculture, rev; two crossing a bridge within wreath with shields, medal.