CRYSTAL PALACE PICTURE GALLERY: silver medal (63mm, 130g) made by John Piches, depicting Britannia flanked by Plenty and Learning, with Fame flying overhead; engraved verso "AWARDED BY THE CRYSTAL PALACE COY for a PICTURE "BATTLE OF LA HOGUE" by A. BALLIN of HAVRE, 1873". Auguste Ballin was born in Boulogne in 1842. He was a pupil of Jules-Achille Noel. After the Franco-Prussian War he left France and settled in Brentford, London, where he died in 1909.

medal silvercrystal

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A$250–300

Realised

A$280

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