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Auction 257 13-14 Jul 2022
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British Historical Medals from Various Properties
Royal Dublin Society, an oval silver award medal, Hibernia seated with Irish shield and cornucopiæ, rev. named (Royal Dublin Society to Mr Wm McCalla in Testimony of their Approbation of the first part of his work on the Algae Hibernicæ 1845), 57 x 45mm. Extremely fine £400-£500
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Provenance: Baldwin Auction 55, 7 May 2008, lot 2654; A Collection of Irish Historical Medals, DNW Auction 172, 11 March 2020, lot 356
William McCalla (1814-49), botanist and naturalist from Roundstone, co Galway, where he was a schoolmaster by profession
Royal Dublin Society, an oval silver award medal, Hibernia seated with Irish shield and cornucopiæ, rev. named (Royal Dublin Society to Mr Wm McCalla in Testimony of their Approbation of the first part of his work on the Algae Hibernicæ 1845), 57 x 45mm. Extremely fine £400-£500
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Provenance: Baldwin Auction 55, 7 May 2008, lot 2654; A Collection of Irish Historical Medals, DNW Auction 172, 11 March 2020, lot 356
William McCalla (1814-49), botanist and naturalist from Roundstone, co Galway, where he was a schoolmaster by profession