Impressive Industrial Age Exhibition Medal

441, Lot: 656. Estimate $300. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HANOVER. Victoria. 1837-1901. WM Medal (73mm, 156.60 g, 12h). On the Exhibition of Contemporary Industry at Crystal Palace Exposition, 1851. Birmingham (Heaton) mint. By Ottley. Britannia standing facing slightly right on entablature, holding bee skip set on globe and laurel branch; symbols on modern industry and transportation around and in background OTTLEY. and BIRM: in exergue / EXHIBITION OF INDUSTRY . OF ALL NATIONS . LONDON . 1851, view of the Crystal Palace; below, PROPOSED BY H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT/DESIGNED BY/JOSEPH PAXTON ESQ^RE F.L.S./ERECTED BY/FOX, HENDERSON & C^O in five lines below; above, portraits of Victoria and Albert, each in oval frame ornamented with oak; between, crowned royal arms above floral ornament; OTTLEY to left, BIRM. to right. BHM 2447; Eimer –. Superb EF, lightly toned, small spot on reverse. An impressive piece in its original presentation box stamped with the Cheapside retailer who original sold it. Case separated at spine, but not in a detracting way. Rare.