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The Alexander Balfour Silver Medal of 1888
Alexander Balfour (1824 - 1886) was a Scottish merchant and founder of the Liverpool shipping company Balfour Williamson. He was a committed philanthropist, and founded the Duke Street Home, to provide better conditions for sailors, and orphanages for seamen's children.
The company had businesses in the city of Valparaiso in Chile where he was involved with the English Board School there.
It is a huge medal being 65 millimeters in diameter and weighing 96.1 grams. The medal was tested for its silver contents and scanned virtually pure silver (.999).
It was made by Elkington of Liverpool and it is probably unique as we can find not a single record of another one awarded. The recipient was Henry W. Martin who with his wife, Ethel Benest, where buried in later years in the city of Valparaiso. The box is not in good condition but the medal itself is in excellent, almost proof-like condition.
