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BRITISH HISTORICAL MEDALS, Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, 1910, a silver award medal by B. Mackennal, named (Professor John Aiton Todd, D.L. for his paper on “The World’s Cotton Supply and India’s Share in it”, Session 1916-17), 55mm (BHM 4004; E 1917); Victory of Jutland Bank, 1916, a white metal medal by F. Bowcher for Spink, 45mm (BHM 4124; E 1951a); Bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar, 2005, a silver-gilt medal by Spink, 62mm (E 2218) [3]. Virtually as struck; first and last in cases of issue, first with several relating TLSs by Todd to the secretary of the Royal Society of Arts, 1917-19 £80-100

Of the last medal 50 were struck in silver but very few, perhaps less than a dozen, were sold at the time. John Aiton Todd (1875-1954), of Nottingham and later Rock Ferry, Birkenhead, secretary of the Empire Cotton Growing committee at the Board of Trade, 1917-19. Sold with further copied information