Watch List notes:

USA, George Washington, Eccleston's 'Tribute', medal, in copper, 1805, by Thomas Webb, bust of Washington r., in decorative armour, hair tied en queue, GENERAL WASHINGTON – INSCRIBED TO HIS MEMORY BY D. ECCLESTON. LANCASTER MDCCCV, rev. central standing figure of an American Indian, THE LAND WAS OURS, further legend in three concentric lines around, HE LAID THE FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN LIBERTY, 76mm. (Baker 85), unusually pleasing example, extremely fine
Daniel Eccleston of Lancaster (1745-1821), 'a man not afraid to stand on the shoulders of giants'. A Quaker and Enlightenment radical, he had travelled in the West Indies and America and had met and stayed with Washington at Mount Vernon. His portrait appears on a Lancaster token halfpenny he issued in 1794
(600-800 GBP)