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25 & 26 November 2015

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Lot

№ 1122

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26 November 2015

Hammer Price:
£1,400

The New York City Public Schools’ Athletic League gold medal presented to Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, U.S. Navy

New York City Public Schools’ Athletic League, gold medal, by Dieges and Clust, New York, obv. Winged Goddess of Samothrace in a panel dividing the date 1930, rev. engraved in six lines ‘Achievement through Fitness, Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Inaugural Award by the Public Schools Athletic League’, 68mm, 18 carat, 109.7g., in its fitted presentation case, extremely fine and very rare £1400-1600