Baldwin & Sons
Argentum Auction Fall 2013 2 November 2013
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WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, An Important Photographic Award Medal, awarded to the prestigious French firm, Numa Blanc & Cie, Bronze Award Medal, by A St Gaudens and C E Barber, figure of Christopher Columbus stepping ashore, rev legend on tablet, named (BLANC NUMA), 77mm (Baxter 87; BDM I, 122; Eglitt 90). Extremely fine.
Numa Blanc & Cie, founded in the 1840s and famous for endless portrait photographs, operated in Nice, Cannes and Paris. Examples of their photographs are to be found in many museum collections.
Estimate: £80-100
Numa Blanc & Cie, founded in the 1840s and famous for endless portrait photographs, operated in Nice, Cannes and Paris. Examples of their photographs are to be found in many museum collections.
Estimate: £80-100