Historical and Art Medals, Numismatic Books

Buckinghamshire, Aylesbury Railway Completed, 1839, a bronze medal by A.J. Stothard, bust of George Carrington right, rev. names of the directors, etc, in 14 lines, 50mm (BHM 1890; E 1326; Moyaux 16; Swan 89-90); Berks Bucks Oxon Comp[eti]t[ive] Musical Festival, Aylesbury, 1905, bronze First Prize medals (3), unsigned, all 32mm; Aylesbury Amble, a uniface bronze medal, unsigned, 51mm [5]. First fine, one 1905 medal about very fine, others all extremely fine; two 1905 medals with clips and rings for suspension (£40-50)

Provenance:
P. Preston-Morley Collection, DNW Auction 54, 19 June 2002, lots 603, 604, additionally:
First Baden-Württembergisch-Bank Auction (Stuttgart), 2-4 October 1985, lot 1446.

Sold with a copy of the article on the first medal by David Pickup, ‘Taking Mr Carrington’s head off: correspondence between Alfred Stothard and John Lee’ (The Medal 12, 1987, pp.17-27)