Lot Archive

Lot

№ 782

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25 November 1998

Hammer Price:
£95

50th Anniversary of the Association Amicale des Élèves de l’École Nationale Supérieure des Mines, 1914, a silver plaque by C.H. Theunissen, two miners holding a panel against an industrial backdrop including two freight trains, reverse figures celebrating, DOMVS OMNIBVS VNA, 70 x 50mm (Müseler 18/116; BDM VIII, 234 [attributed to P.L. Theunissen in error]; Hamlet 644; cf. DNW 31, 762). Very fine, rare (£50-70)

Corneille Henri Theunissen (1863-1918), sculptor and medallist from Anzin