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THE PRESTON-MORLEY BUCKINGHAMSHIRE COLLECTION, Smithfield Club, silver award medals by W. Wyon (3), bust of Earl Spencer left, rev. bust of Duke of Richmond right, edges named (As Breeder Best Pen of Short-Woolled Sheep in Class XLV, 1866, Lord Chesham, Latimer, Chesham, Bucks; …Class XLVI, 1869, Lord Chesham, Latimer, Chesham, Bucks; …Class LII, 1870, Lord Chesham, Latimer, Bucks), all 49mm (BHM 2218; E 1400) [3]. Scuff marks in fields, otherwise very fine (£80-100)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Preston-Morley Buckinghamshire Collection: Commemorative Medals.

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Provenance:
Sotheby Auction, 20 February 1974, lot 418 (part).

William George Cavendish, 2nd Baron Chesham (1815-82), of Latimer House, Chesham; MP for Peterborough, 1847 and for Buckinghamshire, 1857-63