Australian Historical Medals
Lot 662 SESSION 3 (2.30PM TUESDAY 31ST MARCH) Australian Historical Medals
Estimate $250
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SOLD $550
TORONGA (SIC) ZOOLOGICAL PARK TRUST, c1920, presumably a life member fob badge, in gold (9ct; 6.54g; 25x36mm), suspension loop removed, reverse inscribed, 'C.G.Wade'. Very fine.
Originally located at Moore Park opening in 1884, Taronga Zoo relocated to its present site on the harbour foreshore at Mosman opening on 7 October 1916. In 1913 management of the zoo passed to a trust named the New Zoological Gardens Trust that later became the Taronga Zoological Park Trust.
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