International Exhibition, South Kensington, 1862, a copper award medal by L.C. Wyon, edge named (E.C.C. Stanford, Class II), 77mm (Allen A1; BHM 2747; E 1553); Dublin International Exhibition [of] Arts and Manufactures, 1865, a copper award medal by A. Geefs, named (Section II, British Seaweed Co), 75mm (Allen Pt 5; cf. DNW M8, 2133); Exhibition of Arts, Industries and Manufactures, Dublin, 1872, a bronze award medal by J. Woodhouse, named (E.C.C. Stanford), 54mm (BHM 2941; Allen Pt 5; cf. DNW 138, 2906) [3]. Extremely fine and better; in maroon cases of issue, each of which is also named to Stanford £200-300

Edward Charles Cortis, later Stanford (1837-99), Worthing, Sussex; the first medal awarded for chemical products obtained by the destructive distillation of seaweed. A pioneer photographer in his late teens, he was advertising his services in that trade by 1855. Stanford was later a pioneer of the Scottish seaweed industry, based on the island of Tiree, to where he moved in 1864 and worked for the North British Chemical Co. Sold with further background information, incorporating a copied portrait photograph