orders, decorations, campaign medals and militaria - Spink
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356<br />
356<br />
Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire Master’s Jewel,<br />
78mm x 52mm, silver-gilt <strong>and</strong> enamel, obverse<br />
featuring the arms of the company, the reverse<br />
inscribed ‘Edward Tozer, Esq. Master Cutler of<br />
Sheffield 1876 & 1877.’, gilding slightly rubbed on<br />
reverse centre, otherwise good very fine, with integral<br />
silver-gilt loop suspension<br />
Volunteer Officer’s Decoration, attributed to Major<br />
W. Tozer, York <strong>and</strong> Lancaster Regiment, V.R., silver<br />
(Hallmarks for London 1899) <strong>and</strong> silver-gilt, good very<br />
fine, lacking integral top rib<strong>and</strong> bar (2)<br />
£100-140<br />
The Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire is a trade guild of<br />
metalworkers based in Sheffield. It was incorporated in 1624<br />
by Act of Parliament, <strong>and</strong> is headed by the Master Cutler.<br />
V.D. London Gazette 17.8.1900 Captain <strong>and</strong> Honorary<br />
Major William Tozer, 1st (Hallamshire) Volunteer Battalion,<br />
The York <strong>and</strong> Lancaster Regiment.<br />
Major William Tozer, the son of Edward Tozer, Master<br />
Cutler of Sheffield, served with the 1st (Hallamshire)<br />
Volunteer Battalion, the York <strong>and</strong> Lancaster Regiment;<br />
advanced Major, 22.5.1895.<br />
For the other <strong>medals</strong> to the Tozer family see Lots 8 <strong>and</strong> 18.<br />
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359<br />
357<br />
Birmingham Medical School Prize Medal, 40mm,<br />
frosted silver, obverse featuring the bust of a Greek<br />
philospher, reverse featuring a male torso, ‘Schola.<br />
Med. Birm. L.M’ above, housed in a silver frame with<br />
glazed lunettes, nearly extremely fine, with integral<br />
silver ring suspension<br />
£30-50<br />
358<br />
Birmingham University Fire Guards General Service<br />
Cross, silver (Hallmarks for London 1974), reverse<br />
named ‘H.A. Lilly’, extremely fine, in box of issue<br />
£30-40<br />
359<br />
A Spanish ‘Piece of Eight’ (Reales) 1814<br />
Minted at Potosi, Bolivia, in the Reign of Ferdin<strong>and</strong><br />
VII of Spain, contemporarily inscribed on obverse<br />
‘Taken in Algiers by Ge. Jones of the Heron’, fine,<br />
pierced for suspension<br />
£60-80<br />
H.M.S. Heron was present during Lord Exmouth’s<br />
bombardment of Algiers, 27.8.1816, <strong>and</strong> this personal <strong>and</strong><br />
interesting relic was probably worn for many years by Mr.<br />
Jones in testimony to his presence in the Battle. As G. Jones<br />
does not appear on the Naval General Service Medal roll for<br />
Algiers it may be assumed that, like so many of those entitled<br />
to the retrospective award, he died before the official medal<br />
was issued in 1848.