Alan V. Weinberg Collection (Agricultural and Mechanical Society Medals)

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Last Updated: 2022-03-24

Agricultural and Mechanical Society medals from the Alan V. Weinberg collection.

Collection Details

Total items: 179
Size: unknown

Works (179)

161. Agricultural & Horticultural Exhibition, Sacramento City, California

Description:: Alan V. Weinberg comments: A fairly common medal in white metal. I've never seen nor heard of another in silver.

162. Siskyou Co. Cal. Agricultural Society

Description:: Alan V. Weinberg comments: Splendid semi-prooflike near Unc 1873 quarter with reverse peripheral legends effaced and hand-engraved " U.S. Ship of the Line Virginia. Keel Laid, 1821. Broke Up, 1874. " Smashed presumably on a reef. Superbly hand-engraved and certainly unique. No evidence on the reeded edge of any suspension attachment ever having been present.

163. Siskyou Co. Cal. Agricultural Society

Description:: Alan V. Weinberg comments: Splendid semi-prooflike near Unc 1873 quarter with reverse peripheral legends effaced and hand-engraved " U.S. Ship of the Line Virginia. Keel Laid, 1821. Broke Up, 1874. " Smashed presumably on a reef. Superbly hand-engraved and certainly unique. No evidence on the reeded edge of any suspension attachment ever having been present.

164. San Francisco Mechanics Institute

Description:: Alan V. Weinberg comments: Apparently these dies were only used in 1868. I've seen perhaps 3 or 4 of this medal in silver in over 50 yrs- it is ex rare in this design. It does not exist in bronze and I own the only gold I've ever heard of - also presented in 1868.

165. San Francisco Mechanics Institute

Description:: Alan V. Weinberg comments: Apparently these dies were only used in 1868. I've seen perhaps 3 or 4 of this medal in silver in over 50 yrs- it is ex rare in this design. It does not exist in bronze and I own the only gold I've ever heard of - also presented in 1868.

166. San Francisco Mechanics Institute

Description:: Alan V. Weinberg comments: By diesinker Stott. Apparently only issued in one year- 1880. I've seen perhaps 3-4 in silver over the decades. Rare.

167. San Francisco Mechanics Institute

Description:: Alan V. Weinberg comments: By diesinker Stott. Apparently only issued in one year- 1880. I've seen perhaps 3-4 in silver over the decades. Rare.

168. San Francisco Mechanics Institute

Description:: Alan V. Weinberg comments: This is a hand-engraved, hand-constructed multi-part gold medal with an added extremely high relief rim. It came with a funereal CDV for the medal recipient and had apparently been acquired directly from the descendant family. Bought on eBay and mis-described as brass!A big impressive and presumably unique medal; I've not seen another.

169. San Francisco Mechanics Institute

Description:: Alan V. Weinberg comments: This is a hand-engraved, hand-constructed multi-part gold medal with an added extremely high relief rim. It came with a funereal CDV for the medal recipient and had apparently been acquired directly from the descendant family. Bought on eBay and mis-described as brass!A big impressive and presumably unique medal; I've not seen another.

170. San Francisco Mechanics Institute

Description:: Alan V. Weinberg comments: This particular San Francisco Mechanics Institute design appears confined only to 1868 issues - dies used only 1 year. No different dated medal has been observed - of the very few I've seen in silver (3) or gold (1).

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