Lot Archive

Lot

№ 323

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1 June 1994

Hammer Price:
£45

France, Louis XVIII, Treasures from Egypt and Greece, 1822, copper medal by Andrieu and Depaulis, 51mm (BDM I, 557); Marie d'Orkans, Duchess of Wurttemberg, 1837, coppermedal by J. P. Montagny, reverse statue ofJoan of Arc, 52mm, in contemporary wooden fitted box; Society for Protection of Children in Manufacturing Industry, 1867, copper medal by A. Dubois, with the head of Empress Eugenic by A. Bovy, 46mm; other French medals, insilver (1), copper (2). All extremely fine (6)The "Société de Protection pour les enfants employés dans les manufactures" was founded on 27 October 1867. Its first patron was the Empress Eugenie, wife of Napoleon III, and it is she who is shown with a groupof children on the reverse of the medal