Lot 4392

Description

Ireland, Academic award medals, to James (Jacobus) Marshall, silver 48mm, Royal Belfast Academical Institution (founded 1810), inscribed Jas. Marshall, c. 1845; another in copper; another engraved medal 43mm 'Presented by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to Master James Marshall (Milford Co Donegall for the best essay on the proper treatment of the Lower Creation, 21st March 1844', reverse quotation from Proverbs XII, 10; another in silver 54mm, from Trinity College Dublin to Jacobus Marshall MDCCCXLVIII; another in silver by Mossop, 52mm from the Historica Socitas Collegii Dubliniensis, for Prose Comp. to James Marshall MDCCCXLIX. The last with hole for wearing, this lot and interesting group from Ireland mostly very fine - extremely fine. (5)