Silver & Collectors' Items - 22nd and 23rd July - 22nd July 2014
Lot 483
The Great Exhibition
Estimate £140 - £180
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Description
The Great Exhibition, 1851, Exhibitor's medal, copper, by W. Wyon, bare head of Prince Albert left, named "BELGIUM NO 230", 44.5mm; International Exhibition, South Kensington, 1862, Prize medal, copper, named "W. B. CARPENTER F.R.S., ASSOCIATE JUROR. CLASS XIII", 77mm; International Exhibition of All Fine Arts, 1874, "W. H. HAINES ….", 51mm. Very fine and better. (3)
William Benjamin Carpenter MD, CB, FRS (1813-1885), physician, physiologist and invertebrate zoologist, much involved in the unification of London University.