448, Lot: 618. Estimate $100. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Troisième République. 1870-1940. Æ Medal (64mm, 103.0 g, 12h). Exposition Universelle. Presented to “Dauphin”. By Louis Bottée. Dated 1889. EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE, Minerva seated right, head left, crowning male figure seated right on anvil; lamp and books in background, painter’s palette, column, and hammer to right; below, 1889 among rays above view of the fair grounds with the Eiffel Tower / Angel flying right, head left, blowing trumpet and holding wreath in arm wraped around a herm-style statue of Marianne; to left, RÉPUBLIQUE/ FRANÇAISE; below, table inscribed DAUPHIN set on branches. Underlying luster, small spot. EF. An attractive Beaux-arts medal.