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Exhibitions: England and Wales, London: Shepherd’s Bush, Japan-British Exhibition, 1910, a uniface gilt-bronze plaque by Vaughton, medieval Japanese and British soldier supporting circular tablet, named (Presented to Gerald A. Kiralfy, Esq), back engraved (Presented to Gerald A. Kiralfy Esq, Architect-in-Chief of the Japan-British Exhibition, 1910, Shepherd’s Bush, London, as a memento and in his appreciation of his untiring efforts towards the success of the Exhibition…), 55 x 40mm. Extremely fine and most interesting, UNIQUE (£80-100)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, British Medals from the Collection of James Spencer.

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Obverse only illustrated. Gerald Archibald Kiralfy, son of Imre Kiralfy (†April 1919), commissioner-general of all the important exhibitions held in London between 1895 and 1914 and designer of the White City stadium preparatory to the 1908 Olympics. Kiralfy, who lived at Churt, Hampshire, lost a son, Dennis, a pilot in the RAFVR, in January 1941. Only one other medal relating to the Japan-British exhibition, which attracted 8 million visitors, has been seen by the cataloguer, although Kiralfy’s own medal for the Liège Expo, 1905, was sold in these rooms in June 2001