AN ORNATE PRIMROSE LEAGUE MEDAL awarded to Churchill for 'Special Service' during the 1900 General Election. The white metal star applied to the centre with polychrome-enamelled Primrose League badge, the gold and purple medal ribbon suspended from a dark blue enamelled bar badge bearing legend 'GENERAL ELECTION' over 'SPECIAL SERVICE 1900', the reverse of the star stamped 'T&JB, Rd.83881', in original T & J Bragg black covered case, the lid impressed 'W.S.C.' to centre; WITH two bar-type badges: one polychrome enamelled over a dark blue enamelled bar bearing legend 'SPECIAL SERVICE 1887'; and a plain red enamelled bar badge bearing legend 'PL DELEGATE 1897'.
AN ORNATE PRIMROSE LEAGUE MEDAL awarded to Churchill for 'Special Service' during the 1900 General Election. The white metal star applied to the centre with polychrome-enamelled Primrose League badge, the gold and purple medal ribbon suspended from a dark blue enamelled bar badge bearing legend 'GENERAL ELECTION' over 'SPECIAL SERVICE 1900', the reverse of the star stamped 'T&JB, Rd.83881', in original T & J Bragg black covered case, the lid impressed 'W.S.C.' to centre; WITH two bar-type badges: one polychrome enamelled over a dark blue enamelled bar bearing legend 'SPECIAL SERVICE 1887'; and a plain red enamelled bar badge bearing legend 'PL DELEGATE 1897'. UNIQUE MEMENTOES OF THREE EARLY MILESTONES IN CHURCHILL'S POLITICAL CAREER. The 1887 'Special Service' badge is likely to have been procured for the young Churchill by his mother in response to a letter he wrote to her on 24 May 1887: 'About a dozen boys have joined the Primrose League since yesterday. I am among the number ... Would you send me a nice badge ... for I want to belong to [the London branch] most tremendously' (Randolph Churchill: I, p89). The 1897 'PL Delegate' badge was presumably worn by Churchill at the Claverton Manor rally at which he gave his first recorded speech. The 'Special Service' given by Churchill at the 1900 election was, of course, his election to parliament as the member for Oldham. (3)
AN ORNATE PRIMROSE LEAGUE MEDAL awarded to Churchill for 'Special Service' during the 1900 General Election. The white metal star applied to the centre with polychrome-enamelled Primrose League badge, the gold and purple medal ribbon suspended from a dark blue enamelled bar badge bearing legend 'GENERAL ELECTION' over 'SPECIAL SERVICE 1900', the reverse of the star stamped 'T&JB, Rd.83881', in original T & J Bragg black covered case, the lid impressed 'W.S.C.' to centre; WITH two bar-type badges: one polychrome enamelled over a dark blue enamelled bar bearing legend 'SPECIAL SERVICE 1887'; and a plain red enamelled bar badge bearing legend 'PL DELEGATE 1897'.
AN ORNATE PRIMROSE LEAGUE MEDAL awarded to Churchill for 'Special Service' during the 1900 General Election. The white metal star applied to the centre with polychrome-enamelled Primrose League badge, the gold and purple medal ribbon suspended from a dark blue enamelled bar badge bearing legend 'GENERAL ELECTION' over 'SPECIAL SERVICE 1900', the reverse of the star stamped 'T&JB, Rd.83881', in original T & J Bragg black covered case, the lid impressed 'W.S.C.' to centre; WITH two bar-type badges: one polychrome enamelled over a dark blue enamelled bar bearing legend 'SPECIAL SERVICE 1887'; and a plain red enamelled bar badge bearing legend 'PL DELEGATE 1897'. UNIQUE MEMENTOES OF THREE EARLY MILESTONES IN CHURCHILL'S POLITICAL CAREER. The 1887 'Special Service' badge is likely to have been procured for the young Churchill by his mother in response to a letter he wrote to her on 24 May 1887: 'About a dozen boys have joined the Primrose League since yesterday. I am among the number ... Would you send me a nice badge ... for I want to belong to [the London branch] most tremendously' (Randolph Churchill: I, p89). The 1897 'PL Delegate' badge was presumably worn by Churchill at the Claverton Manor rally at which he gave his first recorded speech. The 'Special Service' given by Churchill at the 1900 election was, of course, his election to parliament as the member for Oldham. (3)
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