(C. mid 19th century) Cast copy of the Cecil Calvert, Lord Baltimore award medal. As Betts-36. Unknown composition (low grade silver or base metal), cast and chased. 47.6 x 52.4 mm with integral loop and added jump ring.，Mottled gray with coppery and olive overtones. Well made, devices fairly clear but not as distinct as on an earlier cast or a struck medal, rims heavily filed mostly parallel to the rims. The exact purpose of the original medal is unknown; Betts notes that the reverse "field [was] plain for inscribing name of recipient," while the 1983 Spink and Son USA Auction #4 that offered the original, consigned by the descendants of the Calverts, called it an "early colonial award." While that original is currently untraced since its sale in 1983, casts such as this occasionally surface and an early electrotype is present in the collections of the British Museum. This important rarity in the Betts series may not exist in private hands.Acquired from Baldwins in 1956.
