Eimer 1923, BHM 4042.
64mm. Silver. By A. Halliday, manufactures by Elkington & Co.
Obverse with conjoined busts, reverse with a pear tree bearing fruit in front of mountains within a beaded border, legend around.
Extremely Fine with a small area of buffing behind busts, and housed in fitted presentation case of issue, with a band across the interior named to Mr Thomas R Bayliss (lid detached). Very rare in silver.
Thomas Richard Bayliss, born at Birmingham in 1838, died there on the 24th July, 1914, aged 76. He gained his practical training at various mechanical workshops in Birmingham, and in 1859 he was employed by Mr. John Abraham, for whom he designed machinery for the manufacture of ammunition and later erected the Adderley Park Rolling Mills and Metal Works. On the transfer of this business to the Birmingham Small Arms Company, Mr. Bayliss became managing director of that establishment, retaining the position until 1889, when he founded the King’s Norton Metal Company. He designed and erected improved machinery for metalworking, ammunition-making, etc., and laid out important extensions of the works at Abbey Wood, Kent. He was the inventor of the solid drawn cartridge case and laid down plant of his own design for its production at Spandau, Erfurt and Danzig in 1872. He took an active part in municipal, county and social work. Mr. Bayliss was elected a Member of The Institution of Civil Engineers on the 2nd December, 1884.