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Dragon and George

harashaharasha Posts: 3,113 ✭✭✭✭✭
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A high relief beauty:

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  • StorkStork Posts: 5,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Oooooo, I spy with my little eye...a WYON. My favorite Dragon and the George (who gets that reference?). A great one!


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  • JCMhoustonJCMhouston Posts: 5,306 ✭✭✭
    That is very nice.
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  • mkman123mkman123 Posts: 6,849 ✭✭✭✭
    whats the story behind this item?
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  • harashaharasha Posts: 3,113 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Cathy must be a Gordon Dickson fan. I read several of the books, but I do not remember if I read the latter ones in the series.

    I could not find much about the Polytechnic. It appears to have been some sort of trade school for those of the lesser classes (tongue in cheek) that operated during the late 19th, early 20th centuries.
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  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭
    Lovely St. Geo.

    That toning lends itself to a nice cameo effect of this Wyon masterwork.
  • DorkGirlDorkGirl Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭
    Very niceimage
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  • HussuloHussulo Posts: 2,953 ✭✭✭
    Thats a lovely ST George and Dragon design. The engravers name appears to be "J.A.Restall" if so I would place it around circa 1895?

    As luck would have it the St George and the Dragon design was just being discussed on another forum I visit and the following trial die was pictured taken from the Royal Mints online exhibition:

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    It was done by George Kruger Gray and prepared for the 1935 for the Silver Jubilee crown, which it narrowly lost out to Percy Metcalfe’s version.

    I like yours better as the proportions of St George and his horse are much more life like.
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  • 7Jaguars7Jaguars Posts: 7,741 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes I much prefer this design as well but slack alas we got the Rocking Horse....
    Love that Milled British (1830-1960)
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  • candy2012mustangcandy2012mustang Posts: 479 ✭
    love the obverse
  • ZoharZohar Posts: 6,678 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very nice!
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