Merchant Seamen's Orphan Asylum, Snaresbrook, Swimming Championship Medal, Reverse: Facing Portrait, In Memoriam of Robert C. Halpin. D.L.J.P.R.N.R., 51mm diameter in silver NEF. Robert Charles Halpin captained the Brunel-designed S.S. Great Eastern and was a pioneer in laying transoceanic telegraph cables. He earned the nickname 'Mr. Cable'. (Born Wicklow 18th february 1836, Died 20th January 1894). Johann Strauss 50th Artistic work 1894, 61mm diameter in bronze by Scharff, NEF with s scratch on the obverse, Lusitania Medals 1915 (2) both EF
The 12 Greatest Britons - Medallic Crown-sized issued (12) Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, Captain James Cook, Sir Isaac Newton, Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Drake, Charles Darwin, Queen Victoria, Sir Ernest Shackleton, Oliver Cromwell, William Shakespeare, Sir WinstonChurchill UNC with coloured Union Jacks on the reverses, in the box of issue with certificates, British Banknotes a Medallic 14-coin set UNC in the Windsor Mint box of issue with certificates
Medals a small group (5) Brunel - Thames Tunnel opened 1843 (2) 44mm and 36mm diameter both in white metal, Grand Sunderland Bridge Eimer 1087 45mm diameter in white metal VF to EF, Tokens (2) Birmingham Union Copper Company 1812 countermarked Bradford Workhouse VG, and 18th Century George III Halfpenny token reverse worn
Medal Clichés (4) Obverses (3) Louis Philippe I, 75mm diameter by F. Depaulis, Sir Isambart Marc Brunel 61mm diameter (in two parts) , Louis Philippe I 50mm diameter (in two parts) , and Reverse: Presentation of Colours by Her Majesty August 1813 VF to EF
Brunel, Thames Tunnel Completed 1842 Eimer 1372 42mm diameter in White Metal, by W.J.Taylor, EF, Laying of foundation stone at St. Georges Hall, Liverpool 1854 by Allen & Moore, 44mm diameter in bronze, EF, Manchester Exhibition of Art Treasures 1857 by Pinches, bronze, 41mm. EF.
Thames Tunnel in white metal (3) Obverse: Sir Isambart Marc Brunel bust left, Reverse showing the twin tunnels with walkways above and to the sides diameter 49mm BHM 2136, the second with a similar obverse, the reverse showing a closer view of the tunnels with a walkway above diameter 49mm BHM 2083, the third similar with a similar obverse and reverse to the last with minor differences BHM 2140, 38mm NEF-EF, along with Advertising check 24mm in brass, related makers, all scarce or rare and unlisted in Eimer
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