Commemoration Medal - Industrial Exhibition of Toronto

Commemoration Medal - Industrial Exhibition of Toronto - obverseCommemoration Medal - Industrial Exhibition of Toronto - reverse

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Features

Location Canada
Queen Victoria (1837-1901)
Type Commemorative medals › Event medal
Year 1884
Composition Tin-lead ((white metal))
Weight 25.88 g
Diameter 41 mm
Thickness 4 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
272773

Obverse

Crystal Palace & the Toronto waterfront area, surrounded by legend

Script: Latin

Lettering:
Industrial Exhibition of Toronto
P.W. Ellis & Co.
SOUVENIR

Reverse

Multiple scenes of Toronto landmarks, surrounded by the legend.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
SEMI CENTENNIAL
TORONTO
1834 1884
COMMEMORATION MEDAL

Edge

Smooth

Mint

P.W. Ellis & Co., Toronto, Canada (1852-1928)

Comments

The Industrial Exhibition of Toronto (1834) was the precursor to today's Canadian National Exhibition (CNE). "The first Crystal Palace in Toronto (Completed in 1858), officially named the Palace of Industry, was modeled after the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, England, and it was Toronto's first permanent exhibition hall. It was dismantled in 1878, and the ironwork was used to construct a new Crystal Palace on what would later become Exhibition Place. The second Crystal Palace hosted Toronto's first Industrial Exhibition (the predecessor to the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE)) in 1879." (Old Toronto - Wikipedia).

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1884 

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