Historical and Art Medals, Numismatic Books

19th Century, Lincolnshire Agricultural Society, President’s Medal, 1871, a bronze award by L.C. Wyon, bust of Charles, Earl of Yarborough, right, rev. wreath, engraved (Grantham, 1874), edge named (Awarded to John Cooke for his Turn-Wrest or One-Way Plough), 55mm; Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, bronze First Class award medals by W. Wyon (4), bust of James Watt left, revs. legend in wreath, edges named (Davey., Sleep & Co, for models of Ploughs and Rake, 1882; …Patent Steel Whippletrees, 1885; …Shafts for Vehicles, 1886; …‘The Acme’ Patent Horse Rake, 1888), all 45mm (E 1272); Royal Cornwall Agricultural Association, bronze award medals by T. Ottley (12), arms in wreath, revs. wreath, named (Awarded to Davey, Sleep & Co for Improvements in Turnwrest Ploughs 1877; …Scarifier 1878; …Double Plough 1878; …Harrow 1880; …Plough 1880; …Improved Cultivator 1881; …Improved Harrow 1881; …Whippletrees 1882; …Harrows 1883; …Seed Box to Horse Rake 1883; …Earth Scoop 1896; …Patent Hames 1897), all 48mm [17]. Fine and better (£50-100)