Watch List notes:

BRITISH HISTORICAL MEDALS, Visit of the Archbishop of Canterbury to St Mary's, Beenham, Berkshire, 1988, cast bronze medals by R. Dutton (2), church, rev. angels with trumpet, crown and staff, both 60mm; together with the original artwork for the medal by Ron Dutton, signed Feb. 1988, and a letter from Dutton to the vendor, 25 February 1988 [Lot]. Extremely fine, an unusual and rare group; one medal in brown case of issue £100-150

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The current edifice of St Mary's, Beenham, west Berkshire, dates to 1859; at the time of the visit of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, in 1988, the encumbent was Revd. John Watson, who commissioned the medals from the late Ron Dutton