Commemorative, Historical and Art Medals

Jamaica, Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, London (Inst. 1754), a silver award medal by T. Pingo, Britannia seated, receiving honours from Mercury and Minerva, rev. wreath, named (To Thomas Dancer M.D. MDCCXC, Account of Cinnamon in Jamaica, No. CXXXI), 43mm, 36.01g (Eimer 9; MI II, 684/401; E 648). Extremely fine £250-300

Provenance: R.A. Byrne Collection, Jess Peters Auction (Los Angeles), 13-15 June 1975, lot 896.

Dr Thomas Dancer, who lived in Jamaica from 1773 till his death in 1811-12, is known for publishing A short dissertation on the Jamaica Bath Waters (1784) and Medical Assistant, or Jamaica Practice of Physic (1801). In 1779, as chief of the hospital staff, he went on the Nicaragua expedition