Aust Historical Medals

Lot 512       Aust Historical Medals

Estimate $1,200
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SOLD $950

AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, Practice with Science, 1870, in bronze (90mm) by Hardy Brothers, inscribed on rev., 'J.Clark & Sons, Class 691, No.1896, 1870'; another uninscribed; Melbourne Exhibition Victoria, 1854, bronze (64mm), inscribed on edge '101 W.Gripe Specimens of Moulding', (C.1854/2); Products of New South Wales, Sydney 1854 by L.C. Wyon, (72.5mm); International Exhibition 1862, prize medal, bronze (77mm) by L.C. Wyon, inscribed on edge 'A. Nield Juror Class XXIII, (EHM 2747, Eimer 1553); Great Exhibition prize medal, 1851, bronze (77mm) by W. & L.C. Wyon, inscribed on edge 'Presented to W.D. Haggard by Leonard C. Wyon, Prize Medal of the Exhibition', (EHM 2462, Eimer 1457); others (2) as obverse and reverse plaques but both similarly inscribed 'J. Whitehead Class IX, Prize Medal of the Exhibition'; another 1851 in white metal (52mm), by Allen & Moore, (EHM 2421); another 1851 in white metal (38mm), by W.J. Taylor, (EHM 2459, Eimer 1463); US - Melbourne 1875, Philadelphia 1876 (US Centennial), bronze (69mm) by Campbell & J. Hogarth, made by Stokes & Martin, inscribed 'J.Marshall'; Australian Juvenile Industrial Exhibition, Ballaarat, 1878, in bronze (47mm) by E.A. Altmann, Melbourne uninscribed, (C.1878/1). Two medals polished, all housed with medals fitted into a large felt presentation wooden case. Mostly good very fine - good extremely fine. (12)