Auction Catalogue

17 December 2007

Starting at 1:30 PM

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Historical and Art Medals, Numismatic Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 1644

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17 December 2007

Hammer Price:
£100

Germany, Auslieferung [Circus Games], 1919, an oval cast bronze medal by K. Goetz, two chained German soldiers following a horse-drawn cart in which a monkey (Clemenceau) bangs a drum, rev. band of German soldiers being mocked by a French soldier at left, der nationalversammlvng beschlvss in exergue, 100 x 60mm (K – [cf. 231]). Very fine and very rare (£100-150)

Plate 10. An interesting and earlier variant of the Circus Games medal of 1920, unpublished in the standard work