British Guiana, Local Exhibition, a silver award medal by J.S. & A.B. Wyon, crowned and veiled bust of Victoria left, rev. two sailing ships surrounded by corded band, crown above, edge named (Plant: Anna Catherina, Class I, 1871), 38mm. Good fine £100-150

Provenance: Bt R. Lyall.

The Anna Catharina sugar plantation, owned by Sandbach & Tinne, was on the West Coast, near Demerara and the Demerara River. The nearby negro village also took the name