1893 Columbian Exposition Official Award Medal Case Card Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Description

WORLDS'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION OFFICIAL AWARD MEDAL, 1893.
Eglit 90; Baxter 87; Marqusee 348. 76.3 mm. Bronze. Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Sc. (obverse) and Charles E. Barber, Sc. (reverse). Struck by Scovill Manufacturing Co., Waterbury, CT. Uncirculated, with a beautiful Mahogany/medium chocolate patina rarely found in this condition!
Obverse:
with full length figure of Columbus stepping ashore on the soil of the New World. Inscription in the top right field: PLVS/ VLTRA/ CHRISTOPHER/ COLVMBVS/ OCT.XII/ MCCCCXCII. Signed at bottom center: AVGVSTVS
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SAINT
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GAVDENS
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FECIT.
Reverse:
Barber's reverse design features a large central cartouche with a globe above flanked by two semi-nude winged females. The cartouche is flanked by torches to either side with a six-line commemorative inscription: WORLD'S
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COLUMBIAN
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EXPOSITION/ IN
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COMMEMORATION
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OF
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THE/ FOUR
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HUNDREDTH
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ANVERSARY/ OF
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THE
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LANDING
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OF
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COLUMBUS/
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MDCCCXCII
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MDCCCXCIII
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/ TO, with insert die named to:
ST. JOSEPH’S ACADEMY
. Below the cartouche, a view of a sailing ship and signed in relief, below center: C.E.BARBER.FECIT.
The medal is housed in its original hinged floral-designed aluminum presentation case of issue with dark blue velvet-lined interior and is accompanied with the original card that reads: WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION/ AWARD MEDAL/ AND/ ALUMINUM CASE/ MADE BY/ SCOVILL MANUFACTURING COMPANY/ WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT/ U.S.A. Both the case and card are in excellent condition.
The history and design of this medal has been studied extensively in numismatic circles and a very thorough twenty-two page article/booklet copy by Thayer Tolles titled: “
A Bit of Artistic Idealism”: Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ World’s Columbian Exposition Commemora­tive Presentation Medal
, ANS, 1997, is included with the medal.
The World's Columbian Exposition Official Award Medal, along with an award diploma/certificate designed by Will H. Low, was finally circulated to prize winners in April 1896, a full two and half years after the fair’s closing. Scovill Manufacturing Co. furnished a total of 23,757 medals for the World's Columbian Exposition.
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I have a large collection of bronze bas-reliefs, plaques, medallions, and medals that I will be listing this month by the following sculptors: Chester Beach, Victor David Brenner, Anthony de Francisci, Donald De Lue, John Flanagan, James Earle Fraser, Laura Gardin Fraser, Daniel Chester French, Henry Hering, Anna Vaughan Hyatt-Huntington, Charles Keck, Julio Kilenyi, Frederick MacMonnies, Hermon A. MacNeil, Paul Manship, Bela Lyon Pratt, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Janet Scudder, Louis St. Gaudens, and many others, including prominent French medalists/sculptors/engravers!
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