Lot 605, 1 Mar 00
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| Collection: |
GREAT EXHIBITION MEDALS, 1851 (A Collection) |
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British Historical Medals |
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A COLLECTION OF 1851 GREAT EXHIBITION MEDALS |
| Estimate: |
£30-£40 |
| Hammer Price: |
£210 |
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Description
Prize medal, 1851, by W. and L.C. Wyon, in bronze, similar, edge named (Capt. L.L.B. Ibbetson, Class XXII), 77mm (BHM 2462; E 1457). About extremely fine (£30-40)
Footnote
Capt. Levett Landen Boscawen Ibbetson, FGS, FRS (†1869), Clifton House, Old Brompton, London and Biebrich, Prussia; manufacturer and inventor of ‘electrotypes from the animal and vegetable kingdom’ (sic); he also exhibited a trigonometrical model of the Undercliff, Isle of Wight. Ibbetson’s valuable collection of fossils was given to the Museum of Practical Geology in Jermyn Street, London, in several tranches from 1853. Further biographical detail is sold with the lot
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