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Exposition and Industrial Fair, 1898: Canada Coat of Arms

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Date:

1898.

Type of material:

Objects (including medals and pins)

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Item ID number:

3637724

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National Medal Collection

Exposition and Industrial Fair, 1898: Canada Coat of Arms
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

1898.

Place:

Toronto, Canada:

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 medal / médaille : gold ; 016.47 gr
Support 35.000 x mm

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Physical description note:

This medal has a loop at the top and is suspended from a brooch by a ring;, The brooch is in the shape of a curved rectangle and has a loop at the top. The obverse has some ornamentation and on the reverse is a raised area where a brooch fastener may once have been attached., Obverse: a grouping of a stook of wheat (?), a sickle, a plow, a scythe, an anvil, etc., Reverse: an heraldic coat of arms (Canada? seven provinces?).

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: obverse: EXPOSITION & INDUSTRIAL FAIR / 1898 / AUG. 29 - SEP. 10. / TORONTO, ONT., Inscription: reverse: no inscription, Inscription: edge: no inscription, Inscription: attachment: SOUVENIR
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artifact

commemoration

objet façonné
Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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1986-079 X PIC
05458
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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1986-79-5458

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