Lot 1280

Description

Cook Medals: Centenary 1888 Captain Cook in bronze gilded (36mm x 36mm) (C1888/4) x 2; Australia 1770 - 1970 Cook Endeavour in aluminium silvered (33mm) (C.1970/2); Cook Celebrations / Botany Council in bronze gilded (30mm) (C.1970/8); another identical medal for Citizens Committee of Rockdale (C.1970/13); another identical medal for South Sydney Council (C.1970/15); Captain Cook / Solvol Commemoration Medallion in aluminium gilt (22mm) issued by Lever & Kitchen (C.1970/19); Captain Cook / State Savings Bank of Victoria in bronze gilded (34mm) by Stokes (C.1970/23); Cpt James Cook 1770 - 1970 in bronze and another silvered (31mm) with both set into plastic slab by Kolozsky Designing Co (C.1970/28); James Cook / Miss Blue Cross 1970 in bronze gilded (21mm) issued by MBF (C.1970/31); another identical but Miss Blue Cross (N.S.W.) 1970 reverse; Sutherland Shire Commemoration 1970 awarded by Captain Cook Bi-Centenary Commemoration Committee in bronze, another in bronze gilded and another in bronze silvered (38mm) by Amor (C/1970/33); Council of the Shire of Sutherland / Cook's Landing in bronze gilded (30mm) by Amor (C.1970/34); Victorian Local Government / Endeavour off Point Hicks in aluminium gilded (32mm) by House of Hawk (C.1970/35) x 2; 200th Anniversary / Cook Celebrations N.S.W. in brass (30mm) by Amor; 1770/1970 E.H. / Discovery of East Coast in bronze (38mm) by A. J. Parkes (C.1970/40); Captain Cook / Bicentennial Medal Collection in slver alloy (27mm) x 2; James Cook Bicentenary Coin Exhibition / A.N.S. Brisbane 1970 wooden (Queensland Beech) nickel style advertising token (39mm); Royal Australian Historical Society membership badge with King's Crown in gilt and enamel featuring a bust of Captain Cook; Mis-strike of the Citizens of Rockdale Cook medal (C.1970/13) with only portion of the reverse design stamped and obverse blank; another mis-strike of the same medal but this is a brockage of the obverse design; a blank planchet for this latter design. Very fine - uncirculated. (27)

Ex Tom Hanley Collection.