Walter Scott



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 * align="right"|Obverse Legend
 * Walter Scott / 1824 / W. Wyon sc. Mint. Thomason dir.
 * align="right"|Obverse Description
 * Bust of Scott facing right
 * align="right"|Reverse Legend
 * The Muse of History seated holding a tablet upon which is inscribed "Wav." [from Scott's Waverly novels]. Behind her is a cupid. Beneath is a crown, under which is "Published by Thomason." Surrounding all is "Truths severe in fairy fiction dressed."
 * align="right"|Reverse Description
 * See above.
 * align="right"|Date Struck
 * 1824
 * align="right"|Other
 * 53mm B259. Jehne 248. Laurence Brown, British Historical Medals 1760 - 1960, Vol. 1 (1980), No. 1238. This medal was struck in silver, bronze, bronze gilt, and white metal. Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a Scottish novelist and poet/. Scott had engaged the Ballantyne Press to print his books and, according to Blades, in 1805 he entered into a partnership with Ballantyne. In 1826 the firm of Ballantyne & Co. failed, and Scott as a partner was responsible for trying to pay off the debt. The debt was not discharged until after Scott's death. Although this is the only Sir Walter Scott medal to be listed by Blades/Jehne, there are other pre-1913 medals that should have been listed. There are also post-1913 Scott medals. Besides no. 1238(1824), Brown lists the following: 1165(1821), 1238A (1824), 1260 (1826), 1312 (1827), 1576 (1832), 1988       (1840), 1989 (1840), and one post-1913 medal no. 4235 (1932). Brown no. 1238 (1824) has a variant with the reverse blank. Brown nos. 1988 and 1989 are medals celebrating the erection of a memorial to Scott in 1840; there are at least two other such medals, c. 1840, a 17mm silver medal with Scott seated on the obverse and the legend “Sir Walter Scott” and on the reverse the Scott Memorial, and a 43mm white metal medal with the bust of Scott facing right, to left of bust “Scott” and beneath bust “Natus 1771 Obiit 1832”; on the reverse the Scott monument. The Essay Competition medal awarded by The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club may also date to before 1913; this is a bronze medal, 54mm, with a bust of Scott within a laurel wreath on the obverse and on the reverse the legend "The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club". It is lettered in the center "Essay/ Competition/Presented to/ (space for name)".
 * align="right"|Date Struck
 * 1824
 * align="right"|Other
 * 53mm B259. Jehne 248. Laurence Brown, British Historical Medals 1760 - 1960, Vol. 1 (1980), No. 1238. This medal was struck in silver, bronze, bronze gilt, and white metal. Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a Scottish novelist and poet/. Scott had engaged the Ballantyne Press to print his books and, according to Blades, in 1805 he entered into a partnership with Ballantyne. In 1826 the firm of Ballantyne & Co. failed, and Scott as a partner was responsible for trying to pay off the debt. The debt was not discharged until after Scott's death. Although this is the only Sir Walter Scott medal to be listed by Blades/Jehne, there are other pre-1913 medals that should have been listed. There are also post-1913 Scott medals. Besides no. 1238(1824), Brown lists the following: 1165(1821), 1238A (1824), 1260 (1826), 1312 (1827), 1576 (1832), 1988       (1840), 1989 (1840), and one post-1913 medal no. 4235 (1932). Brown no. 1238 (1824) has a variant with the reverse blank. Brown nos. 1988 and 1989 are medals celebrating the erection of a memorial to Scott in 1840; there are at least two other such medals, c. 1840, a 17mm silver medal with Scott seated on the obverse and the legend “Sir Walter Scott” and on the reverse the Scott Memorial, and a 43mm white metal medal with the bust of Scott facing right, to left of bust “Scott” and beneath bust “Natus 1771 Obiit 1832”; on the reverse the Scott monument. The Essay Competition medal awarded by The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club may also date to before 1913; this is a bronze medal, 54mm, with a bust of Scott within a laurel wreath on the obverse and on the reverse the legend "The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club". It is lettered in the center "Essay/ Competition/Presented to/ (space for name)".
 * align="right"|Other
 * 53mm B259. Jehne 248. Laurence Brown, British Historical Medals 1760 - 1960, Vol. 1 (1980), No. 1238. This medal was struck in silver, bronze, bronze gilt, and white metal. Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a Scottish novelist and poet/. Scott had engaged the Ballantyne Press to print his books and, according to Blades, in 1805 he entered into a partnership with Ballantyne. In 1826 the firm of Ballantyne & Co. failed, and Scott as a partner was responsible for trying to pay off the debt. The debt was not discharged until after Scott's death. Although this is the only Sir Walter Scott medal to be listed by Blades/Jehne, there are other pre-1913 medals that should have been listed. There are also post-1913 Scott medals. Besides no. 1238(1824), Brown lists the following: 1165(1821), 1238A (1824), 1260 (1826), 1312 (1827), 1576 (1832), 1988       (1840), 1989 (1840), and one post-1913 medal no. 4235 (1932). Brown no. 1238 (1824) has a variant with the reverse blank. Brown nos. 1988 and 1989 are medals celebrating the erection of a memorial to Scott in 1840; there are at least two other such medals, c. 1840, a 17mm silver medal with Scott seated on the obverse and the legend “Sir Walter Scott” and on the reverse the Scott Memorial, and a 43mm white metal medal with the bust of Scott facing right, to left of bust “Scott” and beneath bust “Natus 1771 Obiit 1832”; on the reverse the Scott monument. The Essay Competition medal awarded by The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club may also date to before 1913; this is a bronze medal, 54mm, with a bust of Scott within a laurel wreath on the obverse and on the reverse the legend "The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club". It is lettered in the center "Essay/ Competition/Presented to/ (space for name)".