On Monday, September 9, 2002 at 2:32:58 PM UTC+10, Ken Barr wrote:

In article <080920021607356768%an...@huntingdon.edu>,
an...@huntingdon.edu wrote:

I think what you are telling me is that you are perfectly capable of
doing your own internet searches. :)

Sorry, shudda mentioned that I'd already googled without much
success ...

Nonetheless, since I did poke around a bit...

Given the grammatical error, "the company was take over", and the
founder's name spelled as "Clark", I assumed that the "Clarke" spelling
was also a typing error.

My bad, *that* I didn't notice ... I thought it was an Official
Government Listing which had already been vetted for speeling
errers ...

[snip]

If the bit I originally quoted is referencing the correct Marcus Clark
& Company, it was taken over and renamed Waltons Stores, which itself
went defunct sometime after 1988. (There are about a zillion references
to "Waltons Stores v. Maher" from 1988, a major reference in Aussie contract case law, and several other references to the "now defunct
Waltons Stores Limited."

Yep, got that too, which appears to limit the medal to the
1932 - 1988 timeframe, still a little too wide for my tastes.
I'm hoping that "The Big Store" pictured on the medal closed
before the renaming, or that the medal was issued for a specific
occasion, and that somebody Out There remembers when ...

I recently purchased a nice medal from Sydney, Australia ...

http://www.kenbarr.com/09/sydneyaust.jpg

[snip]
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The commemorative medal was issued by the well known and highly regarded Marcus Clark & Company when the harbour bridge opened in 1932. I (aged 75) have had one for many years (inherited from my father who also had it for many years). The pictured store
was built in 1906 and was the tallest building in Sydney at the time.

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