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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheNickelGuy, post: 8173604, member: 20201&quot;]<b>1862 International Exhibition Medal - London</b></p><p><i>My oldest Exposition medal.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1428113[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The 1862 International Exhibition, or Great London Exposition was held in South Kensington, London, on a site now occupied by the Natural History Museum. The buildings occupied 21 acres attracting about 6.1 million visitors.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1428117[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Above the brick entrances of the &quot;Industrial Buildings&quot; on the east and west fronts were two great glass domes, each 150 feet wide and 260 feet high - at that time the largest domes ever built.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1428114[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The exhibition was a showcase of the advances made in the industrial revolution , especially in the decade since the first Great Exhibition of 1851 in London. Among the items on display were; the electric telegraph, submarine cables, the first plastic, Parkesine , machine tools, looms and precision instruments.</p><p>The manufacture of ice by an early refrigerator caused a sensation.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1428115[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The London and North Western Railway exhibited one of their express passenger locomotives, No. 531 Lady of the Lake which won a bronze medal at the exhibition and was so popular that the entire class of locomotive became known as Ladies of the Lake.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>A brand new shining penny in 1862 would buy you a guide booklet.</p><p>A rare piece of ephemera, which I would like to own but that new penny today would be probably worth much more than the booklet. </p><p>I&#039;ll be on the lookout for either.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1428116[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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