Auction Catalogue

8 & 9 June 2016

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Lot

№ 1509

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9 June 2016

Hammer Price:
£160

[Staffordshire Agricultural Society], 1800, a trial for the medal, unsigned [by C.H. Küchler], in copper, Britannia seated left, hand raised, inverted cornucopia under left arm, lion reclining on shield at right, rev. wreath, 47mm (cf. Pollard, NC 1970, p.291, and no. 21, footnote). Minor spotting on reverse, otherwise extremely fine and extremely rare £150-200

Pollard only refers to one other similar such trial, lacking the wreath in Britannia’s right hand, the obverse legend and the artist’s initials, in the British Museum collection