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Medals
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Coin and medal sales double in a decade for UK
10 February 2015Sales of coins and medals at UK auctions have doubled in value over the past decade to £44.7m.
Record for Nobel Prize medal at $4.1m
08 December 2014James Watson’s 1962 award for his work on DNA set a world record price for a Nobel Prize Medal at Christie’s in New York when it sold for $4.1m (£2.6m) hammer.
DNA pioneer’s medal for sale
01 December 2014Christie’s New York are offering the 1962 Nobel Prize gold medal awarded to Dr James D. Watson, one of the world’s greatest living scientists.
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Tudor and Stuart history told through 600 medals
28 August 2014The Christopher Foley collection of British commemorative medals will be sold at Salisbury auctioneers Woolley & Wallis on October 16. The sale is the most comprehensive of its type seen for a century or more.
Nobel Peace medal thief is jailed
10 October 2013A Nobel Peace Prize medal stolen from the Lord Mayor’s Mansion House in Newcastle is still missing despite a 21-year-old man being jailed for the theft.
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Appeal for return of stolen Nobel Peace medal
08 April 2013Rare items stolen during a robbery at the Lord Mayor of Newcastle’s Mansion House include a gold Nobel Peace Prize awarded in the 1930s to Arthur Henderson, a pioneer of the Labour Party and campaigner for disarmament.
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Smart medals of a distinguished Victorian surgeon
01 March 2013This group of orders and medals were awarded to Sir William Smart KCB, a Naval Surgeon and latterly Honorary Physician to Queen Victoria.
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Olympic and War medals in Bedford
25 January 2013Medals and other material relating to George William Hutson, a British athlete who served in the First World War, will be offered for sale at Peacocks on February 1 in Bedford.
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Very affordable British agricultural medals
01 August 2012This is the season of agricultural shows and so Duke’s of Dorchester’s June 20 sale of British agricultural medals was well timed.
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Titanic medal surfaces at auction
29 May 2012London auctioneers Morton & Eden, in association with Sotheby’s, have included in their May 31 sale this silver medal awarded to a steward aboard the RMS Carpathia for his help in rescuing passengers from the Titanic.
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The £180,000 bounty for Bligh’s descendants
08 August 2011ICONIC is the only word to describe two gold medals offered at a recent sale by Noble Numismatics of Melbourne, Australia.
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Baldwin’s to sell medals from Hall collection
22 December 2009THIS 15th century bronze portrait of Cecilia Gonzaga is one of more than 2000 medals in the collection formed by New York collector and former Hollywood actor Michael Hall to be offered by Baldwin's in London in 2010.
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Landmark Renaissance medals set for sale in December
09 November 2009ON December 9, Morton and Eden are to offer what is possibly the most important collection of Renaissance medals to come onto the market in decades.
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Online bidder wins unique medal group at £88,000
05 October 2009THE first Conspicuous Gallantry Cross group to appear at auction also became the highest-priced lot to sell via ATG's live bidding platform the-saleroom.com when it was hammered down for £88,000 at Dix Noonan Webb on September 18.
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Medal celebrating quashing of tobacco duties makes £4600
05 September 2008This rare medal by the Glasgow silversmith Robert Gray & Son from c.1807 commemorates a successful campaign of the previous year to resist imposition of duties on the local tobacco trade.
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Easter Rising medal in Devon
05 February 2008This rare medal issued to those involved in the 1916 Easter Rising is up for grabs in the collector’s auction at Plymouth Auction Rooms on February 16.
US medals law is a meddle too far
26 February 2007A recent federal law, designed to preserve the integrity of United States medals and decorations, is creating chaos within the militaria collecting field.
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Charging over estimate in Paris
07 July 2004THE Paris firm of Bourgey was founded in Paris in 1895. Now under the direction of the granddaughter of the founder, Sabine Bourgey, it is still going strong if the recent sale on June 3 is anything to go by.
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The choice in 2004 – old ale and baccy
02 June 2004LONG before Heineken, Allsopp & Sons’ Burton ale had a claim to be the beer which reached the parts other beers could not reach – bottles of it accompanied Sir George Strong Nares’ expedition attempting to reach the South Pole in 1875.
Women’s Social and Political Union medal
08 January 2004This Women’s Social and Political Union medal for valour was awarded to Mary Richardson, the Canadian-born militant suffragette who, in protest at the re-arrest of Emmeline Pankhurst in March 1914, slashed the ‘Rokeby’ Venus with an axe at the National Gallery.
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