Coins, Historical Medals and Antiquities

Smithfield Club, a silver award medal by W. Wyon, bust of Earl Spencer left, rev. bust of the Duke of Richmond right, edge named (As Breeder Best Pen of Sheep in Class LVII, 1881, Albert Brassey, Heythrop Park, Chipping Norton Oxon.), 49mm (BHM 2218; E 1400). Good very fine, sometime cleaned and partly retoned £30-£40

Col. Albert Brassey (1844-1918), Heythrop Park, Chipping Norton, rower, soldier, landowner, Conservative MP for Banbury 1895-1906