Watch List notes:

World Medals, Australia, Sydney International Exhibition, 1879, First Special Award, bronze medal, by J. S. & A. B. Wyon, figure of Australia stands before exhibition buildings, named to G. Lawton & Sons, within wreath of Australian fruit and flora, 76.5mm., nearly extremely fine
George Lawton & Sons, woollen manufacturers of Vale Mills, Micklehurst, Wright Mill, Roaches and Diggle Mill, Saddleworth, exhibited 'a case of cricketing and other flannels ... [which] will be keenly criticised just now by cricketers, whose season has already opened'. George Lawton & Sons had also exhibited at the 1862 International Exhibition in London.