NETHERLANDS, Conférence de la Paix, The Hague, 1907, a silver medal by H. Le Roy for the Société Hollandaise-belge des Amis de la Médaille d’Art [issued 1909], standing robed figure of Peace indicating a farmer ploughing a field to seated naked male warrior, rev. ship in a stormy sea, 65mm, 109.46g (Zwierzina 747; ANS Exh. Cat. 1910, p.194-5, no. 9; BDM VII, 551; cf. Künker e83, 656; cf. MPO 78, 2547). Extremely fine and toned, rare £300-£400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Silich Collection of Historical and Art Medals.

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Elsen Auction 114 (Brussels), 15 September 2012, lot 1807.

The Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 were a series of international declarations and treaties negotiated at two international peace conferences. Along with the Geneva Conventions, they were among the first formal regulations regarding the laws of war and war crimes to be enshrined in international law