British Historical Medals
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Lot 2247 Session 7 (11.30am Wednesday) British Historical Medals
Estimate $100
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $140
OPENING OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE, 1854, in bronze (41mm) (BHM 2550 obverse, 2553 reverse), obverse, a muse holding cadeucus and key opening the doors to the Crystal Palace through which can be seen some of the exhibits, a lamb to the left and Corinthian helmet to right, reverse, view of Exhibition Building 'Designed by Sir Joseph Paxton' above and 4-lines of text in exergue; North Wales and Border Counties Exhibition, 1876, in bronze (48mm) (BHM 3034); Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee, undated, in silver (32mm), uniface, obverse with vertical texture finish, impressed with crowned head of QEII in centre and around clockwise, RC, C, lion passant left, rose, with loop suspension. Extremely fine. (3)
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