Silver & Collectors' Items - Day 1 and Day 2 - 16th July 2013

Lot 627

The Reverend Arthur Henry Johnson (1845 - 1927)

Estimate £40 - £60 | Hammer £50

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Description

The Reverend Arthur Henry Johnson (1845 - 1927), bronze 80th Birthday tribute medal, 1925, by Percy Metcalfe, bust left, rev., interior the Chapel of All Souls College, Oxford, 63.5mm; with 19th century French bronze medals of Charles VIII and Henri IV with Louis XVIII, 55 and 41mm. Very fine or better. (3)

Johnson was an Oxford academic and author of the definitive five volume History of the Worshipful Company of the Drapers of London. His son [Sir] Robert Johnson was Deputy Master of the Royal Mint and an early patron of Metcalfe.