Coins, Historical Medals and Antiquities

Renfrewshire Agricultural Society, a silver award medal, unsigned, named (Show 1901, Best Clydesdale Mare or Gelding not used for Hire, won by Walter Reid), 35mm (Brodie –; cf. DNW 135, 1336); Inverness Farmer Society, a silver award medal, unsigned, named (Chas. G. Johnston, Balloch, Roadster, 1908), 45mm [2]. First extremely fine and in case of issue, second virtually mint state and attractively toned £60-£80

Although unsigned, the second medal is housed in a contemporary gilt-blocked case by Donald Macrae of Inverness. The Inverness Burgh Directory for 1906-7 carries an advertisement for Macrae as a manufacturing jeweller, watchmaker and optician based at 28 Eastgate