Spain, Kingdom. A Seville First Class Academy Award by Cejalvo of Madrid certificate_of_authenticity maker marked with the "M4/27"

maker marked with the "M4/27" stamp

Stapled and mounted to a strip of cardboard

base lined in white felt

Footnote: William Blane's original name was William Burriss Engelbrecht

Spain, Kingdom. A Seville First Class Academy Award by Cejalvo of Madrid certificate_of_authenticity maker marked with the "M4/27"(Academia de Primera Clase de Seville). In plated silver, the badge itself in the form of an ornate shield and surmounted by a crown, obverse illustrating the Academy's insignia within an oval frame, surrounded by the Latin inscription "TU TUTANTUR ORNANT, EMENDANT. 1855", reverse illustrating a crowned shield and bearing an "8" flanked by "NO at the left and "DO" at the right, inscribed "ACADEMIA DE PRIMERA CLASE DE SEVILLA" below, measuring 38. 2 mm