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Offline Drayke

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Re: Medal
« Reply #18 on: Wednesday 20 July 22 04:42 BST (UK) »
There are plenty of examples of these kind of medal fobs around and most if not all for that period are for awards of a club or sports event/championship, school alumni etc and many made by the same silversmith Albert Sydenham.

You are going to have to look at the area they lived in to try and determine which activities, schools or clubs were around and work from there. Best place would be newspapers etc to find out if there was a club with those letters.

Here are some more examples to show that they were generally awards for sports events/clubs etc.
https://www.antiques-atlas.com/antique/antique_silver_watch_fobmedal_1893/as600a535
https://www.etsy.com/sg-en/listing/935228693/pocket-watch-fob-medal-large-openwork

Considering that shooting clubs were popular back then I would start there especially given the abbreviation would imply as such unless it was a school club. i.e. L.S.S.S(hooting).C(lub). That said, the acronym could literally be anything.

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Re: Medal
« Reply #19 on: Thursday 21 July 22 19:38 BST (UK) »
thank you for the suggestions .. I will do a bit more research and see what I come up with.  This is a mystery that I would love to solve .. I appreciate all the responses on this posting