Grampus [False Killer whale?] George VI 'Round & Sound Fivepence a

'Round & Sound Fivepence a Pound Duke Cherries'

Joseph Ames was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1743

with images of coins from King Charles II's reign

The boy is lent against a desk with books on

Part of the building is now used as a museum of the Knights Hospitallers and the St John's Ambulance Brigade

Grampus [False Killer whale?] George VI 'Round & Sound Fivepence aPlate 17 for the paper 'Observations on the structure and oeconomy of whales', by John Hunter, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society vol. 77 part 1 1787 pp. 371 450. View of the animal's left side from slightly above: there is a shadow below, suggesting a whale seen laid out on the ground. Hunter described the whale as 'about eighteen feet long, the belly white but less so than in the former, and shaded off into the dark colour of the back'.