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Details
LOT 4540
Group of Five [5] Commemorative Medals. 19th-20th century AD.
Various types. Condition as seen.(176gr total.).
Provenance
From the private collection of author and historian Dr DeWitt Bailey; thence by descent to his grandson.
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