60th Birthday of Graham Pollard, 1990, a plated bronze medal by I. Rank-Broadley for Fattorini, bust right, rev. reclining nude male on the bank of the River Cam, left foot in the water, regarding a pollarded tree and a figure holding an hour-glass, 50mm (W 3058; E 2174; The Medal 17, p.85). Mint state; in black fitted case by Fattorini, Birmingham, England £40-£50

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Numismatic Medals from the North Yorkshire Moors Collection.

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John Graham Pollard (1929-2007), a career numismatist at the Department of Coins and Medals, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge from 1950, serving as Keeper from 1966, retired 1988; fellow of Wolfson College; his principal field of expertise was Italian Renaissance medals