Medals
Foreign Medals - ESPOSIZIONE INTERNAZIONALE DI MILANO 1906, by by S. Johnson., Italy Five nude women in circle, aeon in background. Rev. Helvetia and Italia clasping hands, Mercury descending towards them.Cf. Catalogo delle opere esposte alla esposizione internazionale di fotografia, Genova, 1905.Modesto Campo was a Genovese photographer who participated in the International Photography Exposition in Milan in 1905. His name and submitted photos can be found in the catalogue of the exposition, numbers 440 and 441. The plaquette here for sale was sent to him by the Secretary General of the exposition, Gigi Sciutto.AE plaquette 51.5 x 73.5 mm. R, very interesting as a whole! With original satchel by S. Johnson, envelope and handwritten note by Gigi Sciutto addressed to Sig. Campi Modesto. A medal of the Societa Ginnastica di Genova from 1896 engraved with the same name in original cassette is added Extremely fine