Medal celebrating quashing of tobacco duties makes £4600

This rare medal by the Glasgow silversmith Robert Gray & Son from c.1807 commemorates a successful campaign of the previous year to resist imposition of duties on the local tobacco trade.

Measuring 4in (10cm) high, it is engraved on one side with a tobacco jar and message From Corbett Ru…

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