Edinburgh Skating Club medal sold for £300 by The Auction Centre.
Stamped with the Edinburgh assay and the sponsor’s mark for James Douglas, it is engraved to the obverse with a pair of crossed ice skates and a banner with the motto Ocior Euro (Swifter than the East Wind) and to the reverse Edinburgh Skating Society, Hugh Broughton, 1801.
Edinburgh Skating Club medal sold for £300 by The Auction Centre.
Printed in 1865, the book Edinburgh Skating Club with Diagrams of Figures and a List of Members notes Broughton in the list of early members, admitted to the club on December 28, 1801, with his occupation listed as an exciseman.
His medal sold on low estimate for £300.
