Reward of Merit medal by Ottley and W. Ingram – pewter – box impressed Commercial School Yeovil, Somerset. Praemium Laboris.
44mm pewter
Athena instructing a boy with temple in the background was a design by Thomas Ingram (see Grimshaw for other medals made much earlier)
The reverse is signed Ottley Birmingham – the family firm was active in most of the 19th century into the 20th…
This is a stock medal
Commercial School Yeovil in Wine Street  started about 1855 and was still active in 1882
