Australian Historical Medals
Lot 319 SESSION 2 (11.30AM TUESDAY 26TH JULY) Australian Historical Medals
Estimate $850
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SOLD $520
DRAYTON & TOOWOOMBA AGRICULTURAL & HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, Prize Medal in silver (46mm), reverse inscribed, 'Awarded to/M.Tansey./Best/Bred Shorthorn Cow./1877.'; another identical but in bronze (46mm), reverse inscribed, 'Awarded to/M.Tansey,/Second Prize/Shorthorn Bull, 2 yrs./1877.'. The first with several edge nicks and some contact marks, otherwise good very fine, the second with some mint red, a few minor edge nicks, otherwise extremely fine. (2)
The small town of Tansey in the Gympie Region of Queensland takes its name from settler, Michael Tansey, a resident of Lakeview from 1877. He was also on the committee of the Drayton & Toowoomba Agricultural & Horticultural Society.
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