M505 - SCOTLAND, Edinburgh Skating
Club, Silver Prize Medal, 50mm, awarded to John Jopp WS, 30
December, 1830, Edinburgh George IV hallmark, makers mark JM, Mercury
advancing right, OCTOR EURO, rev., EDINBURGH SKATING CLUB / JOHN JOPP WS /
30 DECEMBER / 1830, an attractive medal from the worlds first and oldest
skating societies. $295
The Edinburgh Skating Club was established
in 1742 as the world's first, membership carried with it an acknowledgment
of social status. John Jopp WS (Writer to the Signet) was a Scottish lawyer,
practicing in Aberdeen and Edinburgh, he was a member of the ancient
Scottish legal 'Society of Writers to His Majesty's Signet' established in
1594.
