1929

CANADA: AE plaque, 1915. EF

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CANADA: AE plaque, 1915. EF
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CANADA: AE plaque, 1915, 44 x 56mm, The Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto bronze medal; an angel, entwined with a garland of flowers, flying upwards at center; in the distance are glimpses of the exhibition buildings and grounds with a view of Toronto Bay, and in the lower left hand corner C N E and in the right 1915, and right of foot P W ELLIS & CO // MANUFACTURES at top, a man plowing on a hillside over which run the radial electrical power wires, above in the background are two manufactories, below AGRICULTURE, a tablet underneath inscribed CANADIAN NATIONAL EXHIBITION / TO, and below the tablet is a palette with ARTS underneath, EF, ex Robert P. Puddester Collection. "This was designed by Mr. J. O. Orr, General Manager of the Canadian National Exhibition. The chief figure in the composition was inspired by an engraving in a book entitled "Angel's Island." The plaque was modeled by Miss Frances Loring and the dies engraved by P. W. Ellis & Co., Toronto, who, although they at one time struck the largest number of medals of any Canadian firm, have of late years almost entirely given up this branch of their manufacture. Their first attempt in this line was a number of crude medals struck as souvenirs of the Montreal Winter Carnival in 1884, but the piece described above appears to me to be the most artistic medal ever produced in Canada," says R. W. McLachlan in his article in the American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 49 (1915).