GENERAL STRIKE, SERVICE MEDAL 1926 BY THE ROYAL IN by Tilli...

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£4,800

GENERAL STRIKE, SERVICE MEDAL 1926 BY THE ROYAL IN by Tillick, obv, Britannia seated, emblem of the L.M.S. and FOR SERVICE IN NATIONAL EMERGENCY MAY 1926, Rev, three allegorical figures, 51mm, edge impressed SIR JOSIAH STAMP, 108.7g, cased,  Eimer 2003, extremely rare
Sir Josiah Charles Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp (1880-1941) who, at the time of his death, was said to be the second wealthiest man in Britain.  A Civil Servant and columnist who turned to commerce, he was Chairman of the LMS Railway and a director of the Bank of England.   He, his wife and eldest son were killed when their home Shortlands, at Bromley, Kent, was destroyed in an air raid on the night of April 16th,  1941