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Auction 75  24 May 2023
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Lot 151

Estimate: 70 GBP
Price realized: 115 GBP
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Australia, The Melbourne International Exhibition, 1880, prize medal in copper, awarded to the architect Charles Barry, by H. Stokes, diademed and veiled head of Queen Victoria l., rev. legend within wreath, "VITAM EXCOLVERE PER ARTES", named on edge, "Charles Barry, FSA, FRIBA, London, Drawings", 76mm, virtually mint state
The recipient, the architect Charles Barry, Jr (1823-1910), had won a medal the previous year at the Sydney Exhibition. In 1884 his brother Dr Alfred Barry was consecrated as Bishop of Sydney.

Estimate: 70 - 90 GBP
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