DESIGNED BY SIR JOSEPH PAXTON
ERECTED BY
MESSRS FOX & HENDERSON
Obverse script
Latin
Reverse description
Legend
Reverse lettering
THE FIRST COLUMN OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE
AT SYDENHAM
DESTINED FOR
THE RECREATION AND
INSTRUCTION OF THE MILLION
WAS ERECTED ON THE
5 DAY OF AUGUST 1852 BY
SAMUEL LAING, ESQ. M.P. CHAIRMAN
OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE COMP.
IN COMMEMORATION OF WHICH EVENT
THIS MEDAL IS PRESENTED
TO THE SUBSCRIBERS OF
THE AGE
WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
