Lot 714

Description

Thorn Hill Ploughing Match, (Tasmania), 1849, in silver (65mm, 77.8gms) including ornate laurel wreath surround, composite silver medal comprising silver disc (51mm) with central overlay of a silver plough surrounded by a laurel wreath overlay, almost certainly by Charles Jones of Liverpool St, Hobart, inscribed on reverse 'Thorn Hill Ploughing Match 1849 / 1st Prize / presented by / Mr Richd Crocker / to / George Woolley'. The earliest agricultural medal recorded in Tasmania. Good very fine and rare if not unique.

Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 52 (lot 690). Charles Jones was a convict silversmith employed by David Barclay in Hobart in the 1830s. By 1840 Jones was in business on his own account in Liverpool Street, Hobart, until 1857. This is only the second medal so far attributed to him. This spectacular medal originally came to light as a result of the publicity surrounding the sale of the medal by Charles Jones in our July 1996, Sale 51 (lot 974).