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№ 548

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7 December 2015

Hammer Price:
£160

Wayland Agricultural Exhibition (Est. 1856), a glazed silver award medal by T. Ottley, farm animals, tree and farmhouse in background, rev. lord walsingham president in wreath, 54mm. Virtually as struck; lunettes held with silver rim, clip and ring for suspension; in original fitted case by Thos. Ottley, Spencer Street, Birmingham
£100-150

Sold together with an ALS from Lord Walsingham to Mrs D.L.M. Perkins, secretary of the Wayland Agricultural Society in Thetford, 15 August 1988, offering the medal to the Society and noting that it had been the property of the late Lionel Julnes, ‘a conspicuous character in the 30s in Watton with his walrus moustache’ and passed to Julnes’ daughter, Sylvia Bowett, of Hunstanton, who requested Walsingham broker the medal to the Society