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George Washington (1732-1799). White Metal Medal, 1789. 17.6g, 35.5 mm, of British manufacture, by
Charles Twigg. Half-length bust right, in uniform, GEORGE WASHINGTON. Rev. Legend in nine lines,
GENERAL OF THE AMERICAN ARMIES 1775 RESIGN’D THE COMMAND 1783 ELECTED
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 1789. (Baker 65).
Very rare
. Extremely fine.
$ 650
For Twigg, cf BHM III, p.305.
1501
George Washington (1732-1799). Daniel Eccleston’s Bronze ‘Tribute’ Medal, 1805. 75.5 mm, 150.2g, by
Thomas Webb. His armoured bust right. Rev.
Standing figure of an American Indian, THE LAND WAS
OURS, further legend in three concentric lines around. (Baker 85). Edge bruised, pierced at top. About
Very fine.
$ 300
Daniel Eccleston had traveled extensively in the United States, he had “sailed down Lake Champlain and Lake George, in a birch-
bark canoe, with the King of the Connawaga nation …” and had met Washington. He returned to Lancaster from where, in 1794,
he issued a Halfpenny token bearing his portrait.
from the collection of medals formed by William Victor Royle Baldwin (known as Roy or Uncle Roy), one of A H Baldwin & Sons
Ltd founder’s three sons, he was born in 1893
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