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Lot 530    SESSION 3 (2.30PM TUESDAY 29TH MARCH)    Australian Historical Medals

Estimate $100
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $110

EMPIRE DAY ESSAY COMPETITION, 1910, prize medal in silver (24mm), no maker, ring top suspension, plain disc, obverse inscribed, 'Singleton/Empire Day/1910', reverse inscribed, 'Arlie/Waddell', suspended from a silver chain (approx 44cm), with long bar links and a brass clip-ring (tot wt of medal and chain 20.05g). Very fine.

Arlie Waddell was awarded a silver medal in May 1910 in the Girls' Section of the Empire Day Prize Competition Essay at Singleton, NSW on the subject, 'Why Should Australia be Loyal to the British Empire?' Her brother, James Stephen Waddell, was awarded the gold medal in the Boys' Section. Seven hundred children from the Singleton Public School marched to the Mechanics' Institute Hall on Thursday 26 May for the prize presentations. After the day's proceedings the children sang the national anthem and then marched past and saluted the flag.

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