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Ref: 5141 |
Ireland,
Kingstown School (Dunlaoghaire), silver prize medal awarded 1851, by
John Jones Obv:
a globe, lyre and books, engraved above KINGSTOWN SCHOOL
Rev. Dr. Stacpoole Master Rev:
engraved ADJUDGED TO WILLM ESPINASSE for Superior
Answering Midsummer 1851 in 7 kines within laurel wreath Condition:
About as issued; Diameter: 37mm References:
- Notes:
Of the medallist, John Jones, Leonard Forrer (III/82) quotes a sniffy
entry in W Frazer’s On the Medallists of Ireland and
their work (1889) – “He would deserve
slight notice except for his continuing to strike medals from
Mossop’s designs and dies after the death of that artist. He is
reported to have come from Liverpool (to Dublin) and commenced his
career by pulling the rope for Mossop’s Coining press. At one
period of his life he went to America and made some money. Strange
stories are told of the mode in which he dissipated his
earnings.” Kingstown became Dun
Laoghaire in 1920. William Church Stacpoole (d.1870) was the father to
two published authors. The Espinasse family were Huguenots who came to
Ireland from France after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and
became prosperous Dublin merchants. Price
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