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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 />

<strong>orders</strong>, deCoratioNs, CampaigN medaLs aNd miLitaria<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.

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