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World's Columbian Exposition Commemorative Presentation Medal
World's Columbian Exposition Commemorative Presentation Medal

World's Columbian Exposition Commemorative Presentation Medal

Augustus Saint-Gaudens (obverse) (American (born in Ireland), 1848–1907)
Charles E. Barber (reverse) (American (born in England), 1840–1917)
Scovill Manufacturing Co., Waterbury, Connecticut (1820–1905)
Dated 1892–93; struck 1895–96
Medium/TechniqueBronze
DimensionsDiameter and weight: 77 mm, 207.7 gm (3 1/16 in., 0.5 lb.)
Credit LineGift of Cornelius C. Vermeule III in memory of Walter Muir Whitehill
Accession number2005.1130
On View
On view
ClassificationsNumismatics
Collections
ProvenancePresented to the Boston Water Board in 1896; to Cornelius C. Vermeule, Sr., a civil engineer and consultant to the Boston Water Board; by descent through the family to Cornelius C. Vermeule III; to the MFA, 2005, gift.