Watch List notes:

Commemorative Medals, Foreign Medals, South Africa, Cape of Good Hope Agricultural Society, Cape Town, silver prize medal, awarded 1860, by the Heaton Mint, seated figure of Flora with armorial shield of Cape Town, cornucopia and native plants and palms, Table Mountain beyond, rev. engraved within wreath of wheat, 'To W. de Bank for the best sample of Tobacco Exhibited 1860', 49mm., several slight edge bruises, good very fine, rare
*ex W. V. R. Baldwin Collection
ex Baldwin's vault
The Cape of Good Hope Agricultural Society was established in 1831, originally presenting shows in The Gardens, Rosebank and Goodwood. The Society still exists today though under the far less romantic name of Agri-Expo, registered in 1996.
(120-150 GBP)