A SILVER FIGURAL PRESENTATION HANDBELL BY MARTIN HALL & CO. SHEFFIELD 1935 With an athletic tradesman atop a Corinthian column as a handle for the bell at the base, engraved 'Presented to W. Kean, President, by British Trades Union Congress Margate September 1935', an armorial, the National Union of Gold, Silver & Allied Trades badge and T.U.C. Labour emblem, 39cm (15 3/8in) high, 1055g (33.9 oz) Catalogue Note: The arms are those of William KEAN (1871-1954) of Sheffield, who was the Secretary of the Nation Union of Gold, Silver and Allied Trades (1911-1953), Iron, Steel and Minor Metal Trades representative on the Trades Union Congress (1921-45) and President of the Trades Union Congress (1934/5). The award was made to him at the TUC conference of September 1935, which was held at Margate. Later in 1939 he was awarded the OBE.