Historical and Art Medals, Numismatic Books

20th Century, William Spanton, 1922, an obverse trial of the white metal medal by A. Fenwick for the North Staffordshire Field Club, bust left, rev. scratched (Die Engraved by A. Fenwick Age 72 & 10 Month, 1926), 51mm. Minor nicks in fields, otherwise extremely fine, very rare and unusual (£50-70)

William Dunnett Spanton, FRCS (1840-1922), from Hanley, founder of the North Staffordshire Field Club. The scratched inscription on the reverse provides valuable information as to the age of the Birmingham medallist Arthur Fenwick, who set up in business in his own name in 1888 and whose dates are unrecorded by Hawkins and Brown

The metal is aluminium