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Auction: 21124 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 9: British and World Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 6352

Exposition Universelle Paris, AR medal, 1878, by J.C. Chaplain, H H Vivian, awarded to H.H. VIVIAN & Co, REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE, allegorical head of France, crowned and laurel right, rev. EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE INTERNATIONALE DE 1878, winged figure of Fame blowing trumpet, figure of nude youth holding rectangular tablet inscribed H.H. VIVIAN & CO.; aerial view of exhibition grounds beneath, PARIS in exergue, 68mm, 153.38g, accompanied with documentation relating to H.H. Vivian & Co.

H.H. Vivian & Company, of Icknield Port, Birmingham and Swansea, metal refiners.
Henry Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Swansea (1821-1894), was born in Swansea into a Welsh industrialist family of copper smelters. In 1860 he established a mill for brass and introdued zinc-smetling at Morriston works in Swansea, bringing trade and workmen from Germany to do so. In the 1870s he brought the production of metallic nickel into the Swansea district. In 1883 the company, H.H. Vivian & Company was registered to take over the nickle and cobalt works at Swansea, German silver and brass rolling mills at Birmingham, and the nickel mine and smelting works at Senjen, Norway, of the firm of the same name. In 1900 the business was sold to a new company Anglo-French Nickel Co. In 1925 the Morriston works in Swansea cased operations.

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