Lot Archive

Lot

№ 678

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25 November 1998

Hammer Price:
£25

Andreas Hofer, c.1930, a base metal box medal by J. Bauer for Hinterbrühl of Vienna, bust left, reverse the ‘Goldenes Dachl’ building in Innsbruck; containing a set of ten black-and-white photographic roundels of sites in and around Innsbruck, 58mm. Extremely fine (£25-35)

Andreas Hofer (1767-1810), Tirolese patriot and military leader who fought the troops of Napoleon and the King of Bavaria from 1809-10 in an attempt to keep his homeland under Austrian rule