^Lot 1189 Great Britain, small, silver-plated copper alloy Admiral Vernon medal, 1739, Vernon and Brown with c

Great Britain, small, silver-plated copper alloy Admiral Vernon medal, 1739, Vernon and Brown with crown at top and ship at bottom / Porto Bello, ex-Craige, ex-Ford, ex-Adams (plate). AC-PBvb15X; Betts-unl. 6.01 grams, 29 mm. Sharply detailed UNC with dull but fully intact silver-plated surfaces, slightly bent flan, desirable pedigree, described in Ford Collection auction catalog as "Ex T.L. Craige via intermediary on March 10, 1984; earlier, ex Etienne Page (Paris) on May 2, 1969." XRF: 7.39% silver, 39.63% copper, 47.02% zinc, 5.01% lead. Pedigreed to the John Adams Collection (with his handwritten tag) and the Ted Craige Collection, also to the John J. Ford Jr. Collection (Part 13, Stack's Auction of January, 2006, with original lot-tag 555), with old dealer tag from Etienne Page of Paris, plated on page 127 of Medallic Portraits of Admiral Vernon (2010), by Adams and Chao.