USA 1893 The World's Columbian Exposition Chicago 76mm Medal - Cased

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76mm. Bronze. By August St. Gaudens and C. E. Barber.

Obverse with Columbus stepping ashore, reverse with Fame and Victory with globe, atop a tablet which rests on the Santa Maria, named in small panel to 'Augener & Co'.

Good Extremely Fine and housed in velvet-lined aluminium, double sided case of issue.

Augener & Co. was a music-publishing business in London, established by George Augener (1830–1915), originally "Georg", a German national born in Fechenheim near Frankfurt am Main, who had previously been an apprentice with André's publishing house in Offenbach.