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prize medal, Louis Alexandre Bottée, 1889, minted, General: 6.2 x 0.4cm (62 x 4mm), Weight: 107.2g, cartouche, personification, trumpet, star, allegory, tree, Bronze prize from the World Fair awarded to JJ in Paris in 1889 van de Sande Bakhuyzen. On the front, the exhibition area with the pavilions and the Eiffel Tower is depicted on the globe with a rising sun above an allegorical scene with Minerva and a craftsman with hammer sitting on an anvil surrounded by attributes of industry, arts and trade. At the top the inscription: EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE, in the middle below the inscription: 1889. and on a banderole: PAX. Lowercase below the maker: LOVIS BOTÉ E. On the reverse an allegorical image of fame blowing under a shining star on a trumpet near an oak tree. To her right a bust of the virgin of the French Republic Marianne with a laurel wreath. On the left the inscription: REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE. At the bottom above a laurel branch a rectangular classical ornamented cartouche with the name J.J. BAKHUYSEN FROM THE SANDE. Lower right in lower case the name of the maker: LOVIS BOTÉ E, paris