Coins, Tokens and Medals of the Caribbean from the late Raymond Brandon Collection

Medals, Jamaica, Saint George’s Agricultural and Immigration Society, 1840, a silver award medal, unsigned, farm building showing former slave quarters, verdant hills beyond, to the fore a man ploughs, rev. his exy rt hon sir c. t. metcalfe, bt governor of jamaica, named (Awarded to Wm. Hosack Esqr For the Finest Stallion Exhibited from Woodstock Estate, 1840), 61mm (cf. Roehrs 1560). Some minor discolouration, otherwise extremely fine £500-700

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Coins, Tokens and Medals of the Caribbean from the late Raymond Brandon Collection.

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Provenance: Bt R. Lyall.

Charles Theophilus Metcalfe, 1st Baron Metcalfe (1785–1846), also served as acting Governor-General of India and Governor of the province of Canada. The Honourable William Hosack (1808-91), b. Edinburgh, owned estates in Jamaica but returned to Edinburgh in 1872. His medal “For the Finest Spell of Working Cattle”, awarded the following year but otherwise identical, was sold in these rooms, 13 July 2011 (lot 1560), as part of the Roehrs collection. The manor house at Woodstock has recently become a small hotel. Brandon’s index card quotes a description of the medal from the 1846 Jamaica Almanac. He also states ‘one of three similar medals, plus one in the custody of Jamaica College’