Coins, Tokens, Historical Medals, Paper Money and Numismatic Books

Irish Medals, WORLD COINS, Irish Medals, Tullamoore Agricultural Society, a silver award medal by I. Parkes, farm animals in rural setting, rev. wreath of shamrocks, named (To Francis Berry Esq, for the best 1 Acre of Turnips on artificial manure, 1845), 51mm. Some knocks and marks, otherwise good fine, scarce £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals formed by Major John Crooks.

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Francis Octavius Berry (1779-1864), b. Eglish, co Tyrone, son of Thomas and Frances Berry, succeeded to the lands of Eglish, Cloughill, Ballincollinda and Shanlone. His first commercial enterprise was at the age of 16, in 1795, in partnership in his brother James’s linen business in Eglish. He married his first wife, Alicia Adams (1777-1833) in September 1806, after which he moved to Tullamore, co Offaly, where he was much involved in local affairs, including the management of the Charleville estate, owned by the token issuer Charles William Bury, Viscount Charleville (1764-1835). He was a JP, churchwarden and treasurer of the county infirmary. He married his second wife, Susanna Fetherstonhaugh (1816-76) at Moyliscar, co Westmeath, in September 1836. His two wives bore him no less than 17 children between 1807 and 1857, the last of whom died in Bedford, England, in 1924. Sold with extensive background information on the Berry family and their descendants, including copy photographs of Berry and his second wife, Susanna