World Historical Medals
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Lot 3845 Session 12 (11.30am Thursday) World Historical Medals
Estimate $50
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PANAMA CANAL WORKER'S BADGE, six pointed brass star (approx 60mm x 50mm), pierced hole at top, impressed, 'ISTHMIAN CANAL / COMMISSION / 13565', stored in a paperweight-style dome, marked as an 'Official Panama Souvenir' for sale at Panama Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915, base with cardboard insert, 'In Memory of the Unknown Man Who Wore this Badge', with poem below. Discolouration on badge otherwise very fine and scarce.
Badge can be removed by breaking cardboard base insert.
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