Auction # 46 Closing Tuesday - January 14th, 2025 at 10:00 PM EST Catalog Lot 19
Auction Local Time: Feb 7, 2025 09:10:31 EST
1893 World's Columbian Exposition Aluminum Dedication Medal suspended from a brass bar, Eglit # 521A. Obverse: "Ohio Building" in center, "World's Columbian Exposition", "Chicago, Ills.U.S.A.1893" around rim. Reverse: Monument with female figure at top of pedestal. Below, at base of monument, a group of male figures under which is inscribed "Grant-Stanton-Chase-Sherman-Garfield-Sheridan" and "Ohio's Heroic Sons". On the left is "Mother Ohio" and to the right "& Her Jewels". This has a different reverse than the one I sold last year . Size: medal is 1 3/8" diameter, bar is 1 1/2" wide by 2 1/8" high. Condition: Excellent.