Auction # 46 Closing Tuesday - January 14th, 2025 at 10:00 PM EST Catalog Lot 18
Auction Local Time: Mar 24, 2025 06:09:04 EDT
1893 World's Columbian Exposition Spinning White Medal hanging from a Locomotive Engine, version of Eglit #E378. The top portion is the front of a train engine with a picture of a ship of the Caravel in the center. The bottom portion has an inner Medal inserted in outer detached ring and anchored by pins at top and bottom to outer ring so that it will spin. The inner medal pictures a mostly nude lady with hand outstretched with "World's Columbian Exposition" around the top and "1492 - 1893" on the bottom. Outer ring has inscription of the names of 14 countries: "Italy", "France", "Russia", "Norway", "Cuba", "Chile", "Brazil", "England", "Germany", "Spain", "Austria", "Turkey", "Egypt", "China", "Sweden" and "Japan". The back of the outer ring is blank. Reverse of inner medal pictures western hemisphere with "Chicago USA" written on North America. Size: 3 1/2" high by 1 9/16" wide. Condition: Extremely Fine since there is a little darkening to 1/4 of the outer rim.
