Lot Archive

Lot

№ 2254

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24 June 2009

Hammer Price:
£45

France, Exposition Universelle Internationale, Paris, 1900, a bronze award medal by J.-C. Chaplain, head of La France right under the bough of a tree, rev. male figure holding torch above a winged female figure of Victory, Expo pavilion below, tablet named (Brunon et Valette), 64mm (PBE 82; Baxter 95; BDM I, 404; cf. DNW 68, 1257). Extremely fine and attractively patinated; in contemporary case of issue
£30-40