Auction Catalogue

17 March 2004

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Ancient, British and World Coins and Banknotes

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1272

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17 March 2004

Hammer Price:
£100

Victoria (1837-1901), Gardening and Forestry Exhibition, London, 1893, a bronze award medal by G. Cook & Co, female and cherub with plants and pots, rev. fauna, named (A.H. Rickwood, Peaches), 41mm (cf. DNW 50, 1114); Royal Horticultural Society, Banksian Medal, in bronze, after W. Wyon, bust of Sir Joseph Banks right, rev. legend, named (To the Dowager Lady Freake (Gr. Mr. A.H. Rickwood), for Cannas, Sep. 20, 1898), 38mm (BHM 1041; E 1138; MJP p.154); Centenary of the Stockton & Darlington Railway, 1925, a bronze medal by G. Bayes for Pinches, conjoined busts of Edward Pease and George Stephenson left, rev. Vulcan holding a model of the original engine, Locomotion No.1, with a ‘Pacific’ class locomotive in the background, 76mm (Irvine/Atterbury p.139; BHM 4205; E. 2001; Moyaux 74A; cf. DNW 60, 1356); other miscellaneous medals (4, one in silver) [7]. About extremely fine and better; mostly in cases of issue (£50-60)

Dowager Lady Freake, 11 Cranley Gardens, South Kensington, London