British Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Wiltshire Coins and Paranumismatica

Historical Medals, George III, Golden Jubilee, Salisbury, 1810, a copper medal by C.H. Küchler for Lord Radnor, 48mm (Pollard 34; BHM 684; E 1008); Joseph Addison, 1823, a copper medal by E. Rogat, 41mm (BDM V, 192); Salisbury Cathedral, 1830, white metal medals signed Bennett [by T. Halliday] (2), both 50mm, and a bronze cliché of the obv. in a glazed rim (BHM 1469; Taylor 10a); Erection of Wilton Church, 1846, a copper medal by E. Avern for F.T. Price, 51mm (BHM 2254; Taylor 154a [neither recorded in copper]); Salisbury Diocesan Board of Education, a white metal medal after T. Halliday, 50mm (Taylor 10b) [7]. One BHM 1469 about extremely fine, others fine and better but BHM 2254 with small piercing £70-£90

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Wiltshire Coins, Tokens and Paranumismatica formed by the late David Ward.

View
Collection

Provenance: First bt Seaby 1978; second bt February 2008.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719), essayist, poet and politician, b. Milston; St Mary and St Nicholas Church, Wilton, erected 1843-6 to the designs of T.H. Wyatt and D. Brandon for the Rt. Hon. Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron (1810-61), MP for South Wiltshire 1832-61