Medal - Exposition Universelle Paris 1889

Medal - Exposition Universelle Paris 1889 - obverseMedal - Exposition Universelle Paris 1889 - reverse

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Features

Location France
Period Third Republic (1870-1940)
Type Award medals › Miscellaneous award
Year 1889
Composition Brass
Weight 10 g
Diameter 31 mm
Thickness 1.5 mm
Shape Round
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
71392

Obverse

Allegorical figures of "Pax" (Peace) offering a laurel wreath to Industry, who, sitting on an anvil demonstates his creation of the New Paris.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
Exposition Universelle
Pax
1889

Engraver: Louis-Alexandre Bottée

Reverse

A female Herald proclaims the accolade given to N.J. Schloss & Co.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
Republique francaise
NJ Schloss&Co

Engraver: Louis-Alexandre Bottée

Edge

Smooth

Comments

A medal awarded at the "Exposition Universelle - PARIS 1889"One of the first medals to show the Eiffel Tower. It reproduces in miniature the 1889 prize medal won by N. J. Schloss and Co. of New York City at the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1889 

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