BRITISH COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS - Baldwin's

1697 Engraved Naval “Love Token” on a flattened Halfpenny, c.1780s, an officer and his lady standing on
a dock part company, beyond a port-side portrait of a three-masted ship, rev sun and moon over a
pot of flowers, a hand points at the start of the legend in two concentic circles, WHEN THIS YOU SEE
REMEMBER ME AND BEAR ME IN YOUR MIND LETT / ALL THE WORLD SAY WHAT THEY WILL SPEAK
OF ME AS YOU FIND, 47mm (cf Comfort EC52). Very fine, some minor spotting on the reverse. £150-200
The style is comparable with an engraved coin described by Comfort and depicting Prichard and Ann Barns and HMS Sampson,
dated 1786. Whilst the ship is less detailed, his pig-tail, hat, frock-coat and britches and her dress and hat are very much the same.
1698 (images reduced) 1699
1698 The Teylerian Society of Haarlem, established 1778, large Silver Medal, awarded 1792, to the Rev
William Laurence Brown (1755-1830), by J G Holtzhey, figures of the Republic, Learning and
Religion, with distant cityscape of Haarlem, rev within scrolled border, EER PENNING VAN TEYLER’S
GODGELEERD GENOOTSCHAP and stamped “W L Brown VDM Prof Philos Moralis & Ultrajecti
MDCCXCII”, 73mm, 192.22g. Extemely fine, toned. £350-450
This silver medal was awarded for Brown’s “Essay on the Natural Equality of Men; on the rights that result from it, and on
the duties which it imposes”; in 1786, he had received the Society’s gold medal, this for “An Essay on the Folly of Scepticism
the Absurdity of Dogmatizing on Religious Subjects; and the proper medium to be observed between these two extremes”.
Brown was born at Utrecht, educated there and at St Andrews University, entering the Scottish ministry in 1778. He had been
appointed to the English church in Utrecht in 1777 and later to the professorship of Moral Philosophy, Ecclesiastical History
and the Law of Nature. He came to Britain during the wars with France, was appointed to the chair of divinity at the Marischal
College in Aberdeen. In 1800 he was appointed Chaplain in ordinary to the king, in 1804 Dean of the Chapel Royal and was a
Knight of the Thistle.
1699 Ireland, Dublin, Trinity College Historical Society, instituted 1794, Silver Medal for Oratory, 1808,
by Mossop, three muses emblematic of History, Oratory and Poetry before a column, an hourglass
and books on the ground, to right an altar inscribed HOMER, Pegasus above, VOS LENE CONCILIVM
ET DATIS ET DATO GAVDETIS ALMÆ, rev legend with engraved naming added, David R Courtney
EGREGRIE MERENTI IN ARTE ORATORIA 30 th Martii 1808, 52mm, with small integral suspension loop.
Very fine, some edge bruises and scuff marks, rare. £150-200
A similar medal but awarded to the same recipient for “scientia historica” was sold by Baldwin’s in an Argentum Auction, 9
February 2002, lot 302. The Society closed temporarily in 1798 when it was suspected of being used for political purposes and
included Wolfe Tone among its members (Frazer).