Nottingham Post published Nigel Kirk: Can we find these First World war medals?

What's in a name? When it comes to medals, quite a lot – as Nigel Kirk of Fine Art Auctioneers, Mellors & Kirk explains.The Dead Man's Penny encapsulates the personal tragedy suffered by millions of British and Colonial families during and long after the First World War – these plaques were issued to the next of kin of men and women who died as a result of their wounds.When I first came to Nottingham in 1983 it seemed that within every collection of worldly goods presented for...