Lot 563

Description

South Australian Chamber of Manufacturers, Incorporated 1869, All Australian Peace Exhibition, 1930, in silver (51mm), reverse inscribed, 'Miss Rebe Rigg./Cartoon/For Window.' A few small marks and hairlines, otherwise nicely tone and nearly uncirculated.

Rebe Rigg won two silver medals at the All Australian Peace Exhibition, one for 'Stained Glass Window' and another, the above medal, for 'Cartoon for Window'.

Rebe(cca) Rigg (c1871-1958) was a well known artist, born in England, but arriving in Australia in about the 1920s setting up residence in East Malvern, Melbourne, Victoria where she had a studio. She specialised in cartoons and window displays, especially cut-glass church windows, see for example the St John's Anglican Church in East Malvern but there are many others. Her brother was a well respected mining engineer and metallurgist and when Rebecca died she bequeathed funds to establish the Gilbert Rigg Scholarship at the University of Melbourne to encourage post-graduate study in mining and metallurgy.