Commemorative, Historical and Art Medals

The British Dairy Farmers’ Association (Est. 1876), silver award medals (3), unsigned (2) and by J.A. Restall, cow and goat grazing, tree and building behind, revs. butter, cheese and other dairy produce, named (Awarded to Richard J. Mahony for Butter salted, 6 oz. to 56 lbs, Dairy Show, 1883; Lord Poltimore, for Fresh Butter from Scalded Cream, 1895; Awarded to G. & F. Atherton for Best Plymouth Rock, Dairy Show, 1908), 55 and 47 (2) mm (cf. DNW 54, 669) [3]. Very fine and better £100-150

Augustus Frederick George Warwick Bampfylde PC, DL, JP, 2nd Baron Poltimore (1837-1908), Poltimore Park, Exeter and Court Hall, North Molton; educ. Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford; married Florence Sheridan, great grand-daughter of the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan, in 1858; Liberal peer, served under Gladstone as Treasurer of the Household, 1872-4; alderman of Devon County Council and High Steward of South Molton; major in 1st Devon Yeomanry; chancellor of the Primrose League, 1895