Exonumia Auction - Maine Antique Digest

Miscellaneous Tokens and MedalsThis is a rare medal and only the second we have seen. It is oneof only a handful of known American anti-slavery pieces and issurely among the rarest. We sold an unholed AU specimen in our2009 Sale Seventy Nine for $1265.00.JULY 1842. is in two curved lines above a view of the aqueduct. Atthe bottom, CROTON AQUEDUCT/ LENGTH 41M. The reversepresents a bird’s eye view of the reservoir, located at 5th Avenueand 42nd Street looking south with the city buildings in thebackground. In the exergue are five lines detailing the capacities ofthe receiving and distributing reservoirs.In its early days, New York City derived its water supply fromwells, streams and ponds. In 1834, the legislature authorized theCity to begin the necessary works to bring water from the Crotonwatershed more than 30 miles north. This work was completed andthe first Croton water was delivered in 1842. This was a landmarkevent for the city and the cause for a great municipal celebration.Silver medals were presented to city alderman and other highofficials. White metal examples like this are also known, but towhom they were presented is uncertain. (G)Lot 385385. DUKE OF CLARENCE LODGE IOOF AWARD MEDAL,1840. 43.4mm. Silver. Unsigned. Extremely Fine with severalminor edge dents. Holed at top for suspension. Obverse: THEDUKE OF CLARENCE LODGE OF THE INDEPENDENTORDER OF ODD FELLOWS M.U around a radiant all-seeing eyeabove F 519 L/ five symbols of the order/ T. Reverse with an openwreath surrounding a scroll hand inscribed: PRESENTED/ JUNE13 TH 1840/ TO/ P.G. JOHN HUDSON/ FOR HIS MERITORIOUS/SERVICES TO THE/ LODGE. Below: ESTABLISHED/ 1831.(F)386. SIR BENJAMIN BRODIE PORTRAIT MEDAL, 1841. BHM2003, Eimer 1359; Storer 483. 73mm. Bronze. William Wyon, Sc.Extremely Fine. Obverse bust of the famed English physician tothe left. BRODIE inscribed vertically in the field to the right. Rx:Figure of Hygia kneeling left, lighting a lamp perched on a pillarentwined with a serpent. Latin legend: E. TENNEBRIS TANTISTAM CLARUM EXTOLLERE LUMEN QUI POTUISTI,In exergue: CONSOCILET DISCIPULI/ GRATULANTES/MDCCCXLI. Struck in the occasion of Brodie’s retirement fromhis position at St. George’s Hospital in 1841. (F)Lot 388 (reduced)Lot 387387. IMPORTANT NEW YORK CITY CROTON AQUEDUCTMEDAL, 1842. 51.2. White Metal. Robert Lovett, Sr. Sc. ProoflikeUncirculated with scattered small spots and hairlines in thefields. The obverse inscription, BUILT BY THE CITY OF NEWYORK COMMENCED A.D. 1837/ WATER INTRODUCED 4THH106388. PORTRAIT GALVANO OF AN UNKNOWN GENTLEMANBY SALATHIEL ELLIS, ND. 8 ½" Bronze. About Uncirculatedwith some light corrosion on the lower chin and neck. Offered here