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Auction: 1005 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 246

Church of England Temperance Society, Long and Faithful Service Medal, Jesus the Good Shepherd on obverse, white metal, very fine Church of England Temperance Society, Membership Medal (6), St. George on obverse, Bible on reverse, white metal (4); bronze (2), generally very fine or better United Temperance College, Silver Star, St. George on reverse, silver and enamel, with crown suspension, nearly very fine United Abstinence Fidelity, Gold Star, gilt and enamel, with top riband bar, very fine London Temperance Hospital, Silver Cross, reverse officially engraved ´Edith M. Dickinson London Temperance Hospital Aug. 1905 to 1908.´, silver (Hallmarks for Birmingham 1907), with associated top silver riband bar, extremely fine Total Abstinence Society of Ireland, Membership Medal, privately named ´Michl. Ryan. 87th R.I.F.´, silver, good very fine Order of the Sons of Temperance, Friendly Society Medal, reverse officially engraved ´E.H. Neal D.W.P. 1918´, silver (Hallmarks for Birmingham 1918), extremely fine, together with three related Order of the Sons of Temperance badges (15) Estimate £ 40-60 The Total Abstinence Society of Ireland was founded by The Very Reverend Theobald Mathew (1790-1856), the ´Temperance Priest´, who by 1848 had persuaded 3 million people (over half the adult population of Ireland) to take the Pledge; he had similar success in England and America.

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£70