Baldwin & Sons
Auction 101 28 September 2016
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS BY SUBJECT, Agriculture, Salford Hundred Agricultural Medal, for Improvement of Agriculture (later the Royal Lancashire Agricultural Society), Silver Prize Medal, by T Pingo, awarded 1789, Ceres with implements and results of agriculture, worker in field beyond, INST SALFORD HVND LANCASHIRE MDCCLXVII in exergue, rev engraved details around and within corn wreath, TO JOHN LEIGH ESQR OF OUGHTERINGTON FOR FLOATING THE GREATES QUANTITY OF LAND, 48mm (Eimer, Pingo 39). Nearly very fine, repairs to top edge where suspension loop lacking, rare.
The Society was formed by Thomas Butterworth Bayley (1744-1802). Oughtrington Hall, which now forms the main building of Lymm Grammar School,was rebuilt in about 1810 for Trafford Trafford (né Leigh). "Floating" was the practice of diverting streams to flood pastures over the winter months, followed by draining in the spring, then pasturing livestock on the dried meadows. Floating provided early fodder for the increasing numbers of livestock. The procedure was expensive and was initially confined to the estates of wealthy and literate landowners.
Estimate: £120-150
The Society was formed by Thomas Butterworth Bayley (1744-1802). Oughtrington Hall, which now forms the main building of Lymm Grammar School,was rebuilt in about 1810 for Trafford Trafford (né Leigh). "Floating" was the practice of diverting streams to flood pastures over the winter months, followed by draining in the spring, then pasturing livestock on the dried meadows. Floating provided early fodder for the increasing numbers of livestock. The procedure was expensive and was initially confined to the estates of wealthy and literate landowners.
Estimate: £120-150