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Shooting: Acrotormentarian Society of Riflemen, an exceedingly rare group of three medals won by A. R. Margary, 1837-1838,comprising Circular silver medal, 1837, skull and crossed bones within wreath, ACROTORMEN above, date of institution 1808 below, rev. engraved 'Won by A. R. Margary at the Monthly Meeting of the Acrotormentarian Society in May, June, July, August, October and November 1837', 41.5mm. (Tancred p. 360, medal of 1816), integral loop, wreath suspender, London hallmark (oddly) for 1840, maker William Neal, nearly extremely fine Circular and heavy gilt-silver medal, 1837, skull and crossed bones within wreath, ACROTORMENTARIAN above, date of institution 1808 and SOCIETY below, rev. engraved 'Won by A. R. Margary at the monthly meetings of the Acrotormentarian Society in May, June, July, August, November and December 1837, and presented to him by the Right Honble the Countess of Winterton', 51mm., integral loop, London hallmark (oddly) for 1828, no maker's mark, the gilding rich and beautifully crafted, nearly extremely fine Maria Turnour, née Pole, Countess of Winterton (1811-1903), married 1832 to Edward Turnour, 4th Earl Winterton. Circular and heavy gilt-silver medal, 1838, skull and crossed bones within wreath, ACROTORMENTARIAN above, SOCIETY below, rev. engraved 'Won by A. R. Margary at the Monthly Meetings of the Acrotormentarian Society for March, April, May, June, July & Augst, 1838', 51mm., integral loop, suspender a female hand from a scroll, London hallmark for 1837 [William IV], on edge, maker SW (either for Samuel Whitford II or Samuel Wheatley), the gilding rich and beautifully crafted, nearly extremely fine (3)The American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine for March 1838 records a meeting of the Acrotormentarian Society of Riflemen at Wormwood Scrubbs 'to contend for a splendid gold medal, at 300 yards from the target'. 'Mr. A. Margary made use, for the first time, of his newly-invented cartridge for the rifle ... made eighteen hits and four bull's eyes out of twenty-four shots he fired, the target being eighty inches in diameter, and the bull's eye six inches' ... 'On the Thursday following, the Society met at Chalk Farm, when Mr. A. Margary won the silver medal for the sixth and last time'. In 1845 he was exhibiting at the Royal Polytechnic Institution 'Rifle cartridges for the new two-grooved rifle'.
(700-1000 GBP)