Lot Archive

Lot

№ 694

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9 April 1997

Hammer Price:
£50

Fall Out, 1986, silver medal by M. Appleby for BAMS, ellipse, reverse tree, rear of fish and a ram, 31mm, numbered 36 (cf. The Medal 10, p.74). Extremely fine (£30-40)

Malcolm Appleby (b.1946); these medals were actually struck by the artist in solid silver, using hand-engraved dies. The medal’s title refers not just to the nuclear pollution from Chernobyl and Sellafield, but to all types of atmospheric pollution