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Auction: 317 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 991

World's Columbian Exposition, 1893. Official Award Medal. Bronze, 76 mm. By Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Charles Barber. Columbus left stepping onto the soil of the New World, hooded figure behind (Augustus Saint-Gaudens), rev. Expo legend on central plaque, flanked by torches, Muses and globe above, ship below. Awarded to Leopoldo Arnaud (for, according to an old accompanying note, an exhibit of South American minerals). Leopoldo Arnaud, who headed the 1884 scientific expedition into the Chaco region of northern Argentina, published his "Una Expedicion par las Regiones Mineras del Norte de la Republica: Impresiones de Viaje", along with his work on his voyage to Gran Chaco, in 1889 springboarding his role as scientific delegate for Argentina to the Paris Expo of that year and later to the World's Fair in Chicago. Arnaud was later Consul of Peru in Chicago, see the next lot. Eglit 90, Baxter 87. In original aluminum, plush-lined case of issue. Choice About Uncirculated.

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