Auction Catalogue

8 September 1999

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Ancient, Celtic, British and World Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals

The Regus Conference Centre  12 St James Square  London  SW1Y 4RB

Lot

№ 1594

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8 September 1999

Hammer Price:
£140

United States of America, Pan-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco/Opening of the Panama Canal, 1915, bronze plaquette by L. Bottée, female figure standing amongst ruins symbolic of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, the city itself beyond, reverse in two vertical panels: above a map of the Americas, the location of the canal symbolized by a radiant torch; below, a view of the exhibition buildings, and in particular the French pavilion, 57 x78mm. Extremely fine and rare (£100-120)