Summary

Australia New South Wales Sydney
Medal - Agricultural Society of New South Wales, Practice with Science 1870 (AD)
Mint: Hardy Brothers, London
Awarded to: T. Robinson & Co.

Other Details: Prize medal awarded to T. Robinson & Co. at the Intercolonial Exhibition, Sydney, Melbourne-based agricultural implement makers and importers. Their products included farm machinery, wine and wool presses. The company displayed no fewer than 45 implements and machines, including a 'four-way motion for driving four machines at the same time', a self-filling canvas water bucket, a thistle mower with wrought iron fingers, a cultivator, a horse hoe, a horse chaffcutter and a four-horse threshing and cleaning machine. The Exhibition catalogue illustrates the broad range of items on display at the Exhibition: wines; vegetables, fruits and flowers; manures; implements and machinery; fine arts; apparatus and application of liberal arts; furniture and other domestic items; clothing; raw and manufactured products from mining, forestry and other industries; rocks and fossils; chemical and pharmaceutical products; vegetable fibres and other products; apparatus and processes used in the 'common arts'; and foo

Physical Description

A bronze prize medal (89 mm diameter) featuring New South Wales, standing facing, holding a lit torch and a Victor's wreath, around her four children representing the four seasons harvest wheat, carry grapes and tend sheep; below on three panels art, agriculture and industry are represented.

Obverse Description

New South Wales, standing facing, holding a lit torch and a Victor's wreath, around her four children harvest wheat, carry grapes and; below on three panels art, agriculture and industry are representeed. tend sheep; around above, AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES in small letter below HARDY BROTHERS LONDON & SYDNEY

Reverse Description

Around above an olive wreath, PRACTICE WITH SCIENCE; within wreath, AWARDED / TO / T. ROBINSON / & Co. / SECTION XIII / CLASS / No.1353 ; below wreath 1870

Edge Description

Plain

Significance

Prize medal awarded to T. Robinson & Co. at the Intercolonial Exhibition, Sydney. The company displayed no fewer than 45 implements and machines, including a 'four-way motion for driving four machines at the same time', a self-filling canvas water bucket, a thistle mower with wrought iron fingers, a cultivator, a horse hoe, a horse chaffcutter and a four-horse threshing and cleaning machine. The Exhibition catalogue illustrates the broad range of items on display at the Exhibition: wines; vegetables, fruits and flowers; manures; implements and machinery; fine arts; apparatus and application of liberal arts; furniture and other domestic items; clothing; raw and manufactured products from mining, forestry and other industries; rocks and fossils; chemical and pharmaceutical products; vegetable fibres and other products; apparatus and processes used in the 'common arts'; and food. -Catalogue of Victorian Exhibits to the Sydney Intercolonial Exhibition of 1870. -D. Tout-Smith 8/12/2003.

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