Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals

Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland (Inst. 1784), a silver award medal by T.W. Ingram, engraved with the arms and crest of Lord Boyle, named (For Two Oxen, of the West Highland Breed, Exhibited by the Right Honble. The Lord Justice Clerk as Extra Stock at the General Show at Glasgow 1838), 44mm (D & W 136/272; cf. Brodie 91-3); General Agricultural Association of Ayrshire (Inst. 1785), bronze award medals (2), unsigned, named (Mr Cunningham, Shields, for An Ayrshire Heifer, 1865; John Friendship Esq, 3rd Prize for 25 Varieties Potatoes, October Show, 1901), both 45mm (cf. Brodie 28); Brighton & Sussex Horticultural Society, a bronze award medal, unsigned, named (Mr J. Warren, for Exhibit of Stove & Greenhouse Flowers, Aug. 22 1899), 41mm (cf. DNW 130, 1666); King’s Heath Poultry Show, 1906, a bronze award medal by Vaughton, un-named, 51mm; Glasgow & West of Scotland Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, a bronze award medal, unsigned, named (Greenock Branch…Minnie McKenzie, Winner, 1912), 45mm (Brodie 360, this piece); Southgate Horticultural Show, a bronze award medal, unsigned, named (1917, G. Bowra), 45mm; Royal Academy of Music, bronze award medals (2), named (John F. Whistler, Violin, 1932; Cecilia Russ, Aural Training, 1935), both 40mm; Centenary of the London & Birmingham Railway, 1938, a bronze medal by J.R. Pinches, 64mm (BHM 4391; MJP p.101; E 2054); together with miscellaneous bronze medals (2) [12]. Very fine and better, first toned and rare £150-200

Provenance: First and fifth Baldwin Auction, 25 May 2002, lots 393, 414 (part); second Baldwin Auction 33, 6-7 May 2003, lot 1377 (part); fourth and seventh Baldwin Auction, 3 November 2001, lot 409 (part); sixth N.G. Brodie Collection, DNW Auction 41, 3 June 1999, lot 360, Baldwin Auction 38, 4 October 2004, lot 1098 (part); tenth A.B. King Collection, Part I, Morton & Eden Auction 5, 3 October 2003, lot 551 (part).

David, Lord Boyle (1772-1853), Shewalton, Irvine, Ayrshire; educ. St Andrews and Glasgow universities; advocate, 1793; MP for Ayrshire and Solicitor-General for Scotland, 1807-11; Lord Justice Clerk, 1811-41; Rector of Glasgow University, 1815-17; Privy Councillor, 1820. For another medal awarded to Mr J. Warren in 1898, see DNW 130, lot 1666