Opening of the Royal Exchange, 1844, a copper medal by W. Wyon, 28mm (E 1392); Great Exhibition, 1851, a copper medal by W. Wyon, rev. for services within wreath, edge named (Pishey Thompson), 48mm (E 1458); Victoria, Diamond Jubilee, 1897, a silver medal by G.W. de Saulles, 26mm (BHM 3506; E 1817b), a white metal medal by Brookes & Adams, 45mm (BHM 3533); a white metal medal by The Mint, Birmingham, 39mm (BHM 3549) and a white metal medal by F. Bowcher, 38mm; Quatercentenary of the Birth of William Shakespeare, 1964, a silver medal by P. Vincze, 57mm; Stratford Jubilee, 200th Anniversary, 1969, a silver medal by P. Vincze, 57mm [8]. Extremely fine or better, two pierced; some cased or boxed £150-£200

Pishey Thompson (1784-1862), b Freiston, Lincs, was a bank clerk in nearby Boston before emigrating to the US in 1819, where he became a bookseller and publisher on Pennsylvania avenue, Washington and was naturalised as an American citizen. Declared bankrupt in 1841 he returned to England; a second sojourn in the US from 1843 to 1846 preceded a permanent return to England and Stoke Newington, where he died in September 1862