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France, Visite de l’Escadre Russe, Toulon and Paris, 1893, a plated bronze award medal by L.-A. Bottée, seated figure of Russia welcoming figure of France, ships in background, cronstadt etc. in exergue, rev. star above trumpet and wreaths, tablet below, un-named, 117mm (PBE –; BDM I, 231; cf. DNW 51, 1268). Very fine, rare (£40-60)