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11 March 2020

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Irish Coins & Historical Medals

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Lot

№ 356

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11 March 2020

Hammer Price:
£600

Royal Dublin Society, an oval silver award medal, Hibernia seated with Irish shield and cornucopiæ, rev. named (Royal Dublin Society to Mr Wm McCalla in Testimony of their approbation the first part of his work on Algae Hibernica 1845), 57 x 45mm. Extremely fine £300-£400

Provenance: Baldwin Auction 55, 7 May 2008, lot 2654.

William McCalla (1814-49), botanist and naturalist from Roundstone, co Galway, where he was a schoolmaster by profession