THE PRESTON-MORLEY BUCKINGHAMSHIRE COLLECTION, Halton & Aston Clinton Industrial Exhibition, 1868, a bronze award medal, unsigned [for J. Smith & Co], similar, edge named (J. Rolfe, Buckland), 51mm (Grant, BNJ XXIII, p.477; cf. DNW 47, 986). Obverse rim bruise and other edge marks, otherwise good very fine, rare; in original maroon fitted case by Jeremiah Smith & Co, Medallists & Engravers, 42 Rathbone Place, London W (£40-60)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Preston-Morley Buckinghamshire Collection: Commemorative Medals.

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Provenance:
Bt C. Eimer November 1988.

A copy of the article by Hayward Parrott, ‘The Halton Exhibition, 1868, and that “colourful bachelor,” Mr Alfred’ [Bucks and Berks Countryside, Feb. 1977, pp.24-5] is sold with the lot