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Auction 18004 27-28 Mar 2018
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Victoria (1837-1901), Great Exhibition 1851, bronze prize medal by W. and L.C. Wyon, heads of Victoria and Prince Albert left, rev. Industry, attended by Europe, Asia, Africa and America personified, Britannia kneeling in foreground, edge impressed, rev. J. B. Reade Class X, 77mm. (BHM 2462; Eimer 1456), about mint state, in frayed case of issue.
provenance
L. L. Allen, Baldwins, 7 February 2004, lot 16
Bt. September 1996
Joseph Bancroft Reade FRS FRMS (1801-1870) was a pioneer of photography who is most noted for his work with gallic acid and sodium thiosulphate as a suitable fixation agent for early photographic processing several years prior to the experiments of Louis Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot in January 1839.
Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00
provenance
L. L. Allen, Baldwins, 7 February 2004, lot 16
Bt. September 1996
Joseph Bancroft Reade FRS FRMS (1801-1870) was a pioneer of photography who is most noted for his work with gallic acid and sodium thiosulphate as a suitable fixation agent for early photographic processing several years prior to the experiments of Louis Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot in January 1839.
Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00