INDIA, Kurrachee Exhibition, 1869, a silver award medal after Wyon by Heaton, coroneted bust of Queen Victoria left, rev. eight natives clustered around crushing bowl, camel behind, edge named (Wm. Ashby Ingle Hony. Secy.), 45mm (Pudd. 869.3). Extremely fine and attractively toned, very rare £200-300

William Ashby Ingle, b. Bombay 1834, joined the Bombay Civil List in 1856 as a canal surveyor at Kurrachee, and rose to the post of assistant settlement officer before becoming deputy collector and magistrate at Shikapur in May 1864 and then at Kurrachee in May 1866. In April 1869 he became commissioner of paper currency in Kurrachee and then deputy branch registrar general in Sind, November 1870. He finished his career with the Civil List in December 1876