A Collection of Irish Historical Medals, the Property of a Gentleman


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The Duke of Leinster’s Agricultural Prize, Maynooth, a silver award medal by W. Mossop, farm animals and plough in country setting, engraved (Carton, 2 February 1826), rev. wreath, engraved (To the Employer of the second Best Ploughman), edge impressed (Mullen Maker 68 Dame St), 50mm. Fine, very rare


£200-£300 Provenance: James Spencer Collection, DNW Auction M5, 17 December 2007, lot 1176.


This early type of agricultural prize medal is a typical gift by progressive landlords to the employees of their most enterprising tenants. Carton House, Maynooth, co Kildare, was then the seat of Augustus Frederick, 3rd Duke of Leinster and 22nd Earl of Kildare (1791 -1874). The Duke retained a lifelong interest in agricultural improvement and was appointed president of the Royal Agricultural Improvement Society of Ireland in 1841. A similar medal given by the Duke of Leinster in 1828 was in DNW 68A, lot 1445 (£290)


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Margaret Colvin…for the neatest House, 1826), 37mm (D &W128/217). Rim knocks, otherwise fine and very rare; with ring for suspension


£200-£300


Provenance: J. Spencer Collection, DNW Auction M5, 17 December 2007, lot 1033 Tyrhugh, Bannagh and Boylagh Farmers’ Society, a silver award medal, unsigned, shamrock, rev. named (Presented to


331


Provenance: Baldwin Auction, 5 June 2004, lot 586 (part) Daniel O’Connell, 1828, a brass Election medalet by W. Woodhouse, profile bust left, wearing frock coat, rev. lergend,


26mm (BHM 1326). Good very fine £60-£80


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Carmichael School of Anatomy, Medicine and Surgery, a bronzed electrotype medal by W.A. Fagan, bust of Richard Carmichael left, rev. legend, 38mm (BHM 2353; Storrer 562; BDM VII, 2). Good very fine and very rare £40-£60


Provenance: Baldwin Auction 37, 5 May 2004, lot 1740 (part).


The Carmichael School was established in 1826 as the “school of anatomy, medicine and surgery of the Richmond Hospital”, and renamed in 1849, following the death of Richard Carmichael, its first lecturer, who left £10,000 to the Hospital of which £2,000 was allocated to prizes


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