Lot Archive

Lot

№ 794

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31 May 2000

Hammer Price:
£60

WORLD ART MEDALS France, Pierre Marie, 1904, a uniface cast bronze medal by F.-C.-V. de Vernon, bust right, 105mm (BDM VI, 242; Gaz. Num. 1904, p.423, 166). Very fine with light chocolate patination, rare (£60-80)

Dr Pierre Marie (b.1853), neurologist, specialist in diseases of the spine. Perhaps issued to commemorate his 50th birthday in 1903