Commemorative & Historical Medals 1865-1905

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Lot 170    SESSION 1 (9.30AM MONDAY 11TH SEPTEMBER)    Commemorative & Historical Medals 1865-1905

Estimate $3,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $1,800

N.Z. WEST COAST EXHIBITION, 1893-94, stock medal, hand engraved in gold (probably 9ct, 25.8g, 41mm), no maker, ring top suspension, reverse inscribed 'Awarded/To/W.Goodlet/For/Ruby In Matrix/Discovered By/Exhibitor' (M.-); another, as last, hand engraved in silver (41mm), no maker, no suspension, reverse inscribed 'Awarded/To/W.Goodlet/For/Mineralogical/Collection' (M.-); also, cloth fob chain, with gold fittings and fob medal (9ct, tot wt 19.2g, medal 30x28mm), by G.& T.Y. (G & T Young, Dunedin), inscribed on obverse 'D.B.C./1905', reverse 'W.D.Wyatts Prize/Won By/W.Goodlet', central gold shield above inscribed 'C.B.C./1st Prize/Doubles/Wm Goodlet/1910'. The first two extremely fine and extremely rare, both in contemporary cases, the last very fine. (3)

No information is known about the West Coast Exhibition of 1893-94. No medals from the Exhibition are recorded by Morel.

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