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Auction 143 12-14 Dec 2017
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British Historical Medals from Various Properties
BRITISH HISTORICAL MEDALS, Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, 1890, a large cast bronze medal by Elinor Hallé, cast by J. Moore for the Royal Geographical Society, high-relief bust of Henry Morton Stanley left, rev. seated figure of Africa right, in elephant head-dress, empties waters of the Rivers Congo and Nile, her left foot on a crocodile, a mountain and rising sun, 124mm (Attwood 11; BHM 3410; E 1763). Casting flaws on reverse, otherwise good very fine, rare £400-500
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24 examples of this medal are believed to have been made for presentation to the members of the expedition and the families of those who had died on it
BRITISH HISTORICAL MEDALS, Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, 1890, a large cast bronze medal by Elinor Hallé, cast by J. Moore for the Royal Geographical Society, high-relief bust of Henry Morton Stanley left, rev. seated figure of Africa right, in elephant head-dress, empties waters of the Rivers Congo and Nile, her left foot on a crocodile, a mountain and rising sun, 124mm (Attwood 11; BHM 3410; E 1763). Casting flaws on reverse, otherwise good very fine, rare £400-500
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24 examples of this medal are believed to have been made for presentation to the members of the expedition and the families of those who had died on it