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Belgium, Société Royale de Géographie, Antwerp, silver-gilt medal by F. Baetes, expanded globe, MERCATOR and ORTELIUS below, reverse globe, charts, books and other geographical impedimenta in foreground, coats of arms behind, central plaque named (Exposition 1902, Hommage à M.P. Carteron, Délégué du Gouvernement Français), 61mm. Good very fine and very rare (£80-100)

Gerard Mercator (1512-94) and Abraham Ortelius (1527-98) were the two most important cartographers of their time