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Auction: 21124 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 9: British and World Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 6179

International Exhibition, London, 1862, AE Prize Medal, by L C Wyon after D. Maclise, Awarded to James Cornes, Britannia seated, surrounded by female figures bearing the products of Art, Science, Industry and Agriculture, a lion in foreground, rev. within wreath 1862 LONDINI HONORIS CAUSA, on edge J. CORNES. CLASS IX., 77mm, 223.46g (Eimer 1553; BHM 2747), drilled at 12 o'clock, otherwise a bold very fine

The Official Catalogue of the Great Exhibition (1851), as well as the London Exhibition (1862), for which this prize medal was awarded lists James Cornes of Burbridge, near Nantwich (Cheshire) as an Inventor and Manufacturer of Chaff-Cutting machines, applicable as hand, horse or steam powered apparatus.


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