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


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Provenance: Baldwin FPL 2000 (53); T. Millett FPL 2001 (30); J. Spencer Collection, DNW Auction M5, 17 December 2007, lot 1223 Westmeath Farming Society, a silver award medal by J.C. Parkes, farm animals in front of house, tree in central


background, rev. wreath, named (William Levinge Esq, Kilmaglish, for 2nd best five Acres of Swede Turnips, 1862), 35mm. Test marks on edge, otherwise about extremely fine, rare


£150-£200 385


Royal Dublin Society, award medals (3), in silver (2), both by Woodhouse, arms and supporters, reverses named (Spring Cattle Show 1863, Richard Mahony, Best Kerry Cow of any Age, No. 250; Spring Cattle Show 1864, Richd. Mahony, 2nd best Kerry Cow of any age, No. 286), 51 and 44mm; and in bronze, unsigned, for the Spring Cattle Show, 1870, similar, named (R. Mahony, Best Kerry Cow, No. 232), 51mm [3]. Last about extremely fine, others about very fine and better


£200-£260 Provenance: DNW Auction 49, 21 March 2001, lot 778


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Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland, a silver award medal by J. Woodhouse, cornucopiæ, rev. wreath, named (Awarded to Adam J. Macrory, Esq, Duncairn, Co Antrim, for the best Eighteen Variegated Plants, August 1863), 46mm. Tiny obverse rim nick, otherwise extremely fine and attractive


£200-£300 Provenance: J. Spencer Collection, DNW Auction M5, 17 December 2007, lot 1018.


Adam John Macrory (†March 1881, aged 81). The recipient is on the 1861 census records for Duncairn and is shown as owning 85 acres of land there in the late 1870s


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Provenance: Baldwin Auction, 23 November 2000, lot 303 Restoration of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, 1864, a copper medal by W.T. Parkes, bust of Benjamin Lee Guinness


left, rev. view of the Cathedral, 65mm (BHM –). Struck with a deep rim to protect the high relief, extremely fine £60-£80


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hospital, shields below, edge named (D.L. Olden, Dungarvan 1864), 76mm (BHM –). Very fine www.dnw.co.uk all lots are illustrated on our website and are subject to buyers’ premium at 24% (+VAT where applicable)


Provenance: Baldwin Auction, 9 February 2002, lot 313 Dr Stevens Hospital, Dublin, James Cusack Prize, a copper award medal by J.S. Wyon, bust right, rev. façade of the


£150-£200


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