Lot 3684

Description

China, (C)hina (I)nland (M)ission (B)oy's (S)chool, prize medals in silver, shield shape (35mm x 30mm), English hallmarked, ring top suspensions, both inscribed on the obverse "CIMBS/Chefoo/Old Boys/Challenge Shield" "1929" for one and "1930" for the other, both inscribed on the reverse "Won by/J.B./Davies". Very fine. (2)

Chefoo is situated on the southern edge of the Gulf of Chihli in the Yellow Sea, about five hundred miles north of Shanghai, in the province of Shantung. (Chefoo is now known as Yantai.) On the rising ground looking out across a bay, there stood a group of neo-Gothic buildings erected in 1896 by Hudson Taylor, the founder of the China Inland Mission (C.I.M.). For nearly fifty years these buildings were the home of a great English boarding school - the Chefoo School - where children of missionaries from all over China and children of other foreign residents received a Bible-oriented, English "public school" education up to Oxford Certificate level. The school was established in 1881.