Lot Archive

Lot

№ 872

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21 March 2001

Hammer Price:
£85

France, Ligue Nationale contre l’Alcoolisme, 1874, a bronze award medal by E.-A. Oudiné, standing female figure with serpent, reverse wreath, named (Félix Beunoit, 1913), 50mm (BDM IV, 349); Gallia, 1896, a bronze award medal by C.P. Pillet for Desaide, helmeted bust of Gallia in pig-tails right, reverse tablet on wreath, un-named, 51mm (BDM IV, 537); Exposition Universelle Internationale, Paris, 1900, a bronze medal by G.-H. Lemaire for Mongredin, seated female figure, crowned, holding an oak sprig, reverse dirigible, camera, telegraph pole, battleship, globe and other accoutrements, tablet above, 53mm (PBE 542; BM Acq. 1983-7, pl.40, 85; BDM III, 384); La Foire de Paris, 1904, a bronze medal by J.-P. Legastelois, robed female by frontal elevation of building, reverse legend above arms, 50mm; La Défense Contre la Tuberculose, c.1930, a bronze medal by G. Contaux after A. Faivre, winged warrior with shield and cross of Lorraine, reverse legend, 50mm (cf. BDW 9, 759 and DNW 40, 760) [5]. Third extremely fine and in blue card case, others very fine, first rare (£40-50)