Holloway Sanatorium,cased silver medal and RMPA pair Holloway Sanatorium,cased silver medal and RMPA pair Holloway Sanatorium,cased silver medal and RMPA pair Holloway Sanatorium,cased silver medal and RMPA pair Holloway Sanatorium,cased silver medal and RMPA pair

Holloway Sanatorium,cased silver medal and RMPA pair

A nice pair of Mental Nurses badges from the Holloway Sanatorium.This was located at St Anne's Heath,Virginia Waters,Surrey and opened in 1885 as a private mental hospital for the middle classes.Unlike the usual asylums it was ornately designed and sumptuously decorated.It finally closed in 1980 and the building now houses a luxury gated development.
The medal is one of two similar designs and consists of a Plain silver maltese cross with ball finials to the eight points of the cross.This is on a laurel wreath with voided centre.It is topped by the hinged intertwined letters St AH for St Anne's Heath and is hung on a divided blue and red silk ribbon which has a plain silver pin back suspension bar brooch.The medal is hallmarked for Mappin & Webb,Birmingham 1912.It comes in it's original velvet and silk lined wooden presentation case ,marked for Mappin & Webb.Height 98mm
It is accompanied by a bronze medal from the Royal Medico Psychological Association with its original blue silk ribbon and suspension bar brooch.This is named to D Kiely,who unfortunately I have been unable to trace.Height 110mm
Both items are in a very good condition as is the box.One of two similar items I am listing

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