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Lot

№ 518

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10 May 2007

Hammer Price:
£170

India, Lady Hardinge Memorial Medical College, Delhi, 1916, a plated bronze medal by A.G. Wyon, bust left, rev. woman seated in front of microscope, 45mm (Pudd. 916.4; BDM VIII, 293). Some rubbing on high points, otherwise very fine and very rare (£80-100)

The Lady Hardinge Medical College, Connaught place, New Delhi, was named after its founder, Winifred, Lady Hardinge (1868-1914), who laid the foundation stone four months before her death. The College was opened by Lord Hardinge, the Viceroy, on 17 February 1916