Sporting & General Medals, Badges & Awards (Part 4) -
Lot 1226 eSale Sporting & General Medals, Badges & Awards (Part 4) - L
Estimate $350
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ESTHER GLEN MEDAL, New Zealand Library Association, c1960s, struck in bronze (54mm), by M&T (Mayer & Toye, Wellington). Some carbon spotting, otherwise extremely fine and very rare.
The prize was called into being in memory of writer Alice Esther Glen (1881-1940) who was the first notable author of children's books in New Zealand. It has been awarded yearly (with some exceptions) since 1945 by the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) to a New Zealand author "for the most distinguished contribution to New Zealand literature for junior fiction".
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