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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