Coins and Historical Medals

England, Royal Horticultural Society, a silver award medal after W. Wyon, Flora standing facing surrounded by attendants, rev. wreath, named (To John Rutherford Esq., for Orchids, Temple Show, 1902), 55mm. Obverse polished, otherwise extremely fine £50-£70

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Don Kenefick Collection of Historical Medals.

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Provenance: DNW Auction 47, 8 September 2000, lot 728 (part).

Sir John Rutherford, 1st Bt (1854-1932), JP, DL, Beardwood, Blackburn and Rutherford Lodge, Roxburgh; Mayor of Blackburn 1888-9; Conservative MP for Darwen, 1895-1922; Honorary Colonel of the Duke of Lancaster’s Yeomanry Cavalry