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Medalist: Anton Scharff Austrian
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Title: Johannes Gutenberg (ca. 1393/1400–1486): Commemorative of the Erection in New York by Robert Hoe of a Statue of Gutenberg in 1889
Artist:
Medalist: Anton Scharff (Austrian, Vienna 1845–1903 Brunn am Gebirge)
Date: 1889 (?)
Culture: Austrian
Medium: Bronze, dark brown patina, struck
Dimensions: Diam. 2 3/4 in. (70 mm.)
Classification: Medals and Plaquettes
Credit Line: Gift of Henry N. Kent, 1940
Accession Number: 40.101
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