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Auction: 7010 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Comm Medals
Lot: 264

Horticultural Society prize medal, silver, 69 mm., 103g., first issued 1804, awarded to Isaac Oldaker, 6th May 1817, by Rundell, Bridge & Rundell, two allegorical figures, holding fruit etc. and crowing statue with flowers, in ex. soc hort lond inst 7 mart 1804, engraved around presented to mr isaac oldaker may 6th 1817, rev. alienis mensibus aestas over view of greenhouse, maker´s name below, cleaned, minor abrasion, otherwise about extremely fine, in contemporary fitted case, this a little distressed, the lid separate Estimate £ 250-300 Isaac Oldaker (1772-1851) was a famous gardener from Derbyshire who was in charge of the gardens of the Imperial Palace at Ropsha (the Summer Palace of the Tsars of Russia) from 1804 to1812. He returned with many interesting fruit trees and seeds, some of which he later exhibited to the Horticultural Society of London (later to become the Royal Horticultural Society). He then worked at Spring Grove, the garden of Sir Joseph Banks, and built a mushroom house that so impressed the Society that he was made a Fellow in 1814. After the death of Sir Joseph, for whom he did some famous research on violets, he worked for the Earl of Sefton at Stoke Poges until his death.

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