Medal - Saint George’s Agricultural and Immigration Society Award
Medal - Saint George’s Agricultural and Immigration Society Award
€413,402.00
Location
Jamaica
Year
1840
Type
Award medals/Industrial or agricultural
award
Composition
Silver
Weight
Diameter
61 mm
Thickness
Shape
Round
Technique
Incuse, Milled
Orientation
Edge
Period
Notice
Edward Avern
Reference(s)
Obverse description
Farm building and former slave quarters with verdant hills in the background and a man using two mules to plough land in the foreground.
Obverse lettering
POPULATION AND ENTERPRISE
SAINT GEORGES AGRICULTURAL & IMMIGRATION SOCIETY
Obverse script
Latin
Reverse description
Reverse lettering
HIS EXY. RT. HONE. SIR
C.T.METCALFE,BT. GOVERNOR OF JAMAICA, PATRON.
PRIZE MEDAL
AWARDED TO
Wm. hosack Esqr.
FOR THE FINEST YEARLING COLT
EXHIBITED FROM
Woodstock Estate
1840
Reverse script
Latin, Latin (cursive), Latin (Fraktur
blackletter)
