Commemorative, Historical and Art Medals

Smithfield Club, a silver award medal after W. Wyon, bust of Earl Spencer left, rev. bust of Duke of Richmond right, named (Rt. Hon. Sir John Rolt, Ozleworth Park, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucester, as breeder best pen long-woolled sheep in class XXXVII, 1869), 49mm. Scuffed in fields both sides, otherwise about very fine, toned £50-70

Sir John Rolt, PC, QC (1804-71), b. Calcutta; entered Inner Temple, 1833; called to the Bar, 1837; took silk, 1846; Conservative MP for West Gloucestershire, 1857-67; appointed Attorney-General 1866; Lord Justice and PC, 1867