Auction Catalogue

11 December 2002

Starting at 12:00 PM

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English, Scottish and World Coins. Tokens, Tickets and Passes. Historical and Art Medals. World Banknotes

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 860

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11 December 2002

Hammer Price:
£95

United States of America, World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, a bronze award medal by C.E. Barber, figure of Christopher Columbus modelled by A. St. Gaudens, rev. legend on tablet, named (Countess of Tankerville), 77mm (Baxter 87; BDM I, 122; Eglitt 90). Extremely fine (£80-100)

Leonora Sophie Bennet, wife of George Montegu Bennet, 7th Earl of Tankerville, daughter of J.G. Van Marter of New York