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THE PRESTON-MORLEY BUCKINGHAMSHIRE COLLECTION, Aylesbury Railway Completed, 1839, a gilt-bronze medal by A.J. Stothard, bust of George Carrington right, rev. names of the directors, etc. in 14 lines, 50mm (Moyaux 16; BHM 1890; E 1326; Grant, BNJ XXIII, p.135; Swan 89-90). Very fine, reverse better, rare as a gilt medal (£80-100)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Preston-Morley Buckinghamshire Collection: Commemorative Medals.

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Provenance:
Bt C. Eimer July 1980.

The medal commemorates the opening of the railway from Cheddington, on the main line from London to Birmingham, to Aylesbury, on 10 June 1839. Work began on the line in 1837, with Robert Stephenson as the engineer. Among the directors were W. Ricford, MP for Aylesbury, and John Lee, the first secretary of the Numismatic Society of London. Sold with a copy of the interesting article on the medal by David Pickup, ‘Taking Mr Carrington’s head off: correspondence between Alfred Stothard and John Lee’ (The Medal 12, 1987, pp.17-27)