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A COLLECTION OF 1851 GREAT EXHIBITION MEDALS, Prize medal, 1851, by W. and L.C. Wyon, in bronze, similar, edge named (Capt. L.L.B. Ibbetson, Class XXII), 77mm (BHM 2462; E 1457). About extremely fine (£30-40)

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

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Capt. Levett Landen Boscawen Ibbetson, FGS, FRS (†1869), Clifton House, Old Brompton, London and Biebrich, Prussia; manufacturer and inventor of ‘electrotypes from the animal and vegetable kingdom’ (sic); he also exhibited a trigonometrical model of the Undercliff, Isle of Wight. Ibbetson’s valuable collection of fossils was given to the Museum of Practical Geology in Jermyn Street, London, in several tranches from 1853. Further biographical detail is sold with the lot