Lot 1379
Sale 88 · Important Australian & World Coins, Medals & Banknotes, Dr John Chapman Collection
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Description
New Guinea, St Mathias' Total Abstinence Society, 1861, in white metal (52mm) by J.Moore, obverse an open sea in
foreground, a crown, sceptre and book rest upon a rock and on the horizon a fully rigged ship, in field a hand
gives a scroll inscribed with Temperance Oath to a bird in flight, reverse landscape in which a traveller drinks
from a waterfall. A particularly early medal of oceanic interest. Uncirculated and rare.
- Estimate
- $250
- Result Status
- Sold
- Prices Realised
- $380