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Auction: 8019 - Ancient, English, Foreign Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 331

Victoria, Visit to the Corporation of London, 1837, bronze medal by William Wyon, diademed head left, rev. façade of the Guildhall, 54mm. (BHM.1775; E.1304; W.5), some spotting, otherwise very fine; Great Exhibition 1851, Juror´s bronze medal by W. Wyon and G.G. Adams, conjoined heads left, rev. Industry attended by Fame and Commerce, 63mm. (BHM.2464), officially impressed associate juror exhibition 1851 seymour haden, one edge knock otherwise very fine (2) Estimate £ 80-120 Sir Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), etcher, writer and surgeon, founded the Royal Hospital for Incurables but gave up medicine for art in the 1850´´s. He was president of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers. He married Deborah Whistler, the sister of the artist James McNeill Whistler. The Franco-British Exhibition 1908 Silver Medal to Haden was sold in SNC, February 2006, CM1073

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