France 1878 Paris Universal Exposition 87mm Medal - Samuel Morley M.P

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87mm. By E.A Oudine.

Obverse with Marianne standing with Mercury and Godesses of the Arts and Industry, naked figure reclines below, reverse showing infant genii holding up plan of the Exhibition. Edge stamped cuivre.

Good Very Fine with some spotting and housed in a wonderful fitted case of issue, named to Samuel Morley Esq M.P., member of the British Royal Commission.

Samuel Morley (15 October 1809 – 5 September 1886), was an English woollen manufacturer and political radical. He is known as a philanthropist, congregationalist dissenter, abolitionist, and statesman.