Australian Historical Medals
Lot 1287 SESSION 4 (2.30PM TUESDAY 25TH JULY) Australian Historical Medals
Estimate $1,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $1,100
CONVICT LOVE TOKEN, on a smooth copper blank (24.10 g), on one side "a gift to you/from me a friend/whose love for you/shall never end/Maria Knott/1818", other side, "when this you/see Rem me when/In a foreign country/Blake" underneath a heart with two arrows piercing it. Very fine.
Together with infomation pertaining to Joseph Blake, Convict, sentenced to death but reduced to deportation to Van Diemens Land in 1818.
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