Australian Exhibition Medals

Sale 113    22–25 Nov 2016   Dixson Room, State Library of NSW   Sydney

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Lot 3296    Session 12 (11.30am Thursday 24 November) Leslie J Carlisle    Australian Exhibition Medals

Estimate $180
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $100

FRANCE, Paris Universal Exposition 1889, prize medal in silvered bronze (63mm), Louis Bottee, obverse, France seated and holding a laurel wreath above artisan's head, exhibition grounds below, reverse, Victory seated on branch of tree and blowing trumpet and with arm around France, below a plaque impressed, 'Bratby & Hinchliffe'; Great Britain, Great Exhibition York 1889, in gilt (57mm), by J.A.Restall, reverse inscribed, 'Bratby & Hinchliffe/For/Excellence of Exhibit'. The first in leather pouch, silver worn in places, otherwise very fine, the second in maker's case of issue, extremely fine. (2)

Bratby & Hinchliffe of Manchester, England were aerated water machinery manufacturers. They also exhibited at the Centennial International Exhibition in Melbourne in 1888 and received a First Order of Merit.

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