Australian Exhibition Medals

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

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Lot 3300    Session 12 (11.30am Thursday 24 November) Leslie J Carlisle    Australian Exhibition Medals

Estimate $200
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $130

USA, WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION, Chicago, 1892, in bronze (76mm) by C.E.Barber - U.S.Mint, obverse full length figure of Columbus arriving on the shore of America, reverse, Fame and Science either side of globe above inscription commemorating the four hundredth anniversary of Columbus landing, tablet below reads 'Higinbotham And Robinson'. In original metal case of issue, uncirculated.

With ticket that reads, 'World's Columbian Exposition/Award Medal/and/Aluminium Case/made by/Scovill Manufacturing Company/Waterbury, Connecticut,/U.S.A.'

Higinbotham & Robinson, map publishers, surveyors and draftsmen, 62 Elizabeth Street, Sydney, c1880s. Presented at the Exposition in Group 150 'Series of Maps with Statistical Diagrams', with Maps - Municipalities of 'The Glebe', subjects - Camperdown & Newtown.

See lot 3288.

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