Lot 821

Description

Geelong Grammar School, 1858, medal in silver with scroll top and bottom (53x38mm), bar suspender and pin back top suspension bar, one clasp, all these engraving decorated, obverse inscribed, 'Geelong Grammar School' around the top and 'Sancte et Sapienter' at the bottom, with the year 1858 in the centre of an ornately engraved oval centrepiece, reverse, plain; another identical medal in silver but with bar suspender only, obverse inscribed, 'Captain of the Grammar School Eleven' around and in the centre, 'George Selleck/1858', reverse, plain. In an unofficial case, good very fine and rare.

Geelong Grammar School was established in 1855. In 1858 Geelong Grammar and Scotch College played the first recognised public school cricket match in Victoria. Scotch College won by fourteen runs in a low scoring match.