Hundred plus year old beekeeping award

[Alastair]

This has been gifted to me by a good beekeeping buddy, a medal awarded 118 years ago to a T. W. Ringer for "display of bee product".

It was awarded at the Crystal Palace, Surrey, which I would assume was in England?

More history of this medal is unknown but I assume T. W. Ringer himself, or one of his family came to NZ and brought it with them, anyone know anything about this gentleman?

 

[Dave Black]

I was a member of the SBKA once (but not in 1906!). I have had a look back and here's some information about the event. These medals was normally awarded on a points basis, and that seems to have been the case here. Ringer was from Tatsfield, just barely in Surrey on the Kent border. Crystal Palace was a show venue for several years, and also used to host the National Honey Show.
One of these files should work for you...