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Lot 1243
Sale 574 - Fine Furniture and Decorative Arts
Jul 17, 2018
9:59AM
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$1,000 -
2,000
Price Realized
$875
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Lot Description
An American Framed Bronze Commemorative Medal
commemorating Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry and the Battle of Lake Erie, 1813, the obverse depicting Oliver Hazard Perry in profile and inscribed Oliverus Hazard Perry Pro Patria Vicit/ Presented by the Government of Pennsylvania, the reverse depicting the British fleet on Lake Erie and inscribed We Have Met the Enemy; And They are Ours/ British Fleet on Lake Eerie/ Captured September 10, 1813, cut by Furst and signed Furst to the reverse.
Diameter of medal 2 1/4 inches.



