1908 Franco British Exhibition Earls Court 58mm Cased Medal

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58mm. Struck in graphite. 

A square advertising medal for Levallois-Peret. Obverse with 'LE CARBONE' in scroll and declaration from King Edward VII below. Reverse showing city arms of Paris.

Good Extremely Fine and housed in fitted case of issue (this warped and with the silk nearly lost). Scarce.

Le Carbonne (later Carbone Lorraine) was a French manufacturing company founded in 1891 that still trades today under the name Merson. It specialises in the use of graphite in electrical and electronic applications.