Auction Catalogue

3 April 1998

Starting at 1:00 PM

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Ancient, British and World Coins, Tokens, Historical Medals and Banknotes

The Arts Club  40 Dover St  London  W1S 4NP

Lot

№ 608

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3 April 1998

Hammer Price:
£20

Medals Related to Navigation, Germany, The Purchase of Manufacturing Rights to the Balance Chambers for Whitehead Torpedos, 1873, a uniface bronze medal by H. Kautsch, allegorical female seated with olive branches, surveying a view of the Whitehead industrial complex at Fiume, 76mm (cf. Spink 17.vii.97, 227). Very fine and very rare (£40-50)