Medals & Coins, Arms & Armour - 2nd December 2025
Lot 64
Sutton Seeds: a collection of agricultural and horticultural prize medals awarded to the famous
Estimate £150 - £250 | Hammer £356
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Description
Sutton Seeds: a collection of agricultural and horticultural prize medals awarded to the famous Reading seed company, including: National Chrysanthemum Society, ''Collection of Vegetables...Nov. 12. 1889", gilt, 39 mm; Deeping St Nicholas District Agricultural Society, "1895...Prize Winner Mangel", silver, 54 mm, cased; The Grand Yorkshire Gala, 1895, gilt, 32 mm; the same, undated, "for a collection of vegetables", silver, 32 mm; The British Dairy Farmers' Association, "Awarded to Martin J. Sutton, for Red Polled Bull "Bockmer King", Dairy Show 1906", silver, 48 mm, edge impressed with award details, cased; Norfolk and Northwick Horticultural Society, 1907, silver, 45 mm, Birmingham hallmark; The Midland Daffodil Society (2), "Display of Cinerarias",1910 and 1911, silver, elaborate cruciforms with suspension loops, 55 mm; Midland Daffodil Society, "Flowers and Vegetables", 1913, silver, 51 mm; Aberdeen Show, "For Sweet Peas", 1935, silver, 44 mm, cased; and various others including unnamed specimens of he Royal Horticultural Society's medals and continental bronze examples, mainly high grades, award details engraved unless otherwse stated. [qty]