A Collection of 1851 Great Exhibition Medals

A COLLECTION OF 1851 GREAT EXHIBITION MEDALS, Prize medal, 1851, by W. and L.C. Wyon, in bronze, similar, edge named (Tao Nui, Class IV), 77mm (BHM 2462; E 1457). Brilliant and practically as struck, an interesting medal with Antipodean associations; in original maroon box by Barnby, Clerkenwell (£40-60)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of 1851 Great Exhibition Medals.

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Tao Nui, a New Zealand producer of woods, gum and flax; represented at the Exhibition by their British agent, Edward Gillman of Twickenham. Further details sold with the lot