Owner Comments:
ONLY (14) HK-157'S LISTED BY THE NGC CENSUS IN THE RARER 40 MM SIZE AS OF 8/2023, VS (52) OF THIS TYPE GRADED IN THE MORE COMMON 37 MM SIZE. HOW IS THIS MEDAL NOT DETAILED AS PROOFLIKE?
AN NGC GRADED MS 63 EXAMPLE WAS SOLD BY HERITAGE AUCTIONS FOR $431.25. THIS ONE APPEARED TO BE A 40MM EXAMPLE, BUT THE HOLDER DID NOT IDENTIFY THE SIZE.
Struck by Boldenweck & Co, Chicago, who received design patents D20,196 and D20,195 for the obverse and reverse designs Oct. 7, 1890. Possibly designed by Rudolph Laubenheimer, who designed No. 297. Almost certainly not designed by Robert Lovett, as suggested by Eglit, since Lovett died more than a decade earlier.
ALSO CATALOGUED AS EGLIT 36(WM).