Australia, The NATIONAL AGRICULTURAl & INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION OF QUEENSLAND, a silver award medal by J. S. & A. B. Wyon, similar, named (Exhibition 1896, Marshall & Slade, Lincoln Hogget), 50mm; Eastern Downs Horticultural & Agricultural Association, Warwick, a silver award medal by A. Parkes, named (W.B. Slade, Shorthorn HFR under 3 yr, 1906), 30mm [2]. Both extremely fine or virtually so; important association items in the history of Australian sheep farming
£150-200

First only illustrated. William Ball Slade (1843-1938), stud breeder, b. Yeovil, Somerset, ed. Sherborne School, Dorset, emigrated to Sydney in 1861. In 1873, with C.H. Marshall, he became manager and a partner in the Glengallan Station, Warwick, on the eastern edge of the Darling Downs region in Queensland where, between the droughts of 1872 and 1902, he developed the Shorthorn stud to over 1,000 pedigreed females, one of the largest in the world. A Lincoln Hogget is a wool-producing sheep