Five Typed Letters Signed, and one letter in a secretarial hand signed in autograph, to the Secretary, Royal Society of Arts.

Author: 
Rev. Allan Gairdner Wyon
Publication details: 
1916 to 1925; on letterhead '80, Boundary Road, | St. John's Wood, | London, N.W.'
£180.00
SKU: 3867

British sculptor (1882-1962) and 'MEDALLIST AND ENGRAVER | TO | HIS MAJESTY THE KING' (as per letterhead). All six items one page, quarto. All six signed 'Allan G. Wyon'. Five bearing the R.S.A. stamp and two docketed. All six very good though dusty (but see secretarial item below). ITEMS ONE (19 October 1916, typed) and TWO (21 October 1916, typed) discuss the practicalities and cost of repairing the R.S.A. 'broken Seal Press'. ITEM THREE (25 January 1919, in secretarial hand, with small spike hole in centre): He is sending '21 Silver and 33 Bronze Medals which I have prepared in accordance with your instructions of the 31st. December last.' Explains why he has been forced to increase the charge for the work. ITEM FOUR (20 September 1924, typed): Acknowledges an order for '11 Silver and 6 Bronze Medals'. ITEM FIVE (11 March 1925, typed): Acknowledges note enclosing '1 Silver Medal for cleaning and polishing'. ITEM SIX (10 June 1925, typed): Acknowledges letter 'ordering the Gold Albert Medal'. Signed autograph postscript concerning 'a specimen of the kind of case we are now supplying for Gold Medals'.