SWEDEN, Selma Lagerlöf, a cast bronze medal by A. Ohlson [H. Bergman], bust left, rev. Fame supporting trumpet on which an owl perches, gesturing to naked child holding an open book and seated on a cloud, edge impressed h. bergman fud, 71mm, 165.23g (cf. Kölner Münzkabinett 111, 1160). Very fine £40-£60

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

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bt Simmons, September 2002

Selma Ottilia Louisa Lagerlöf (1858-1940) was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1909), as well as the first woman elected to membership of the Swedish Academy (1914).