Historical and Art Medals, Numismatic Books

Austria, 10th Anniversary of the Death of Adolf Mautner von Markhof, 1899, a bronze plaque by A. Scharff, bust three-quarters right, rev. two allegorical figures standing by tablet, 44 x 36mm (Hauser –; Wurzb. –; BDM V, 373); 70th Birthday of Leo Reinisch, 1902, a bronze medal by A. Scharff, 47mm (Hauser 7754; Wurzb. 7875; BDM V, 374); Allgemeine Deutsche Ausstellung, Aussig, 1903, a bronze medal, unsigned, 61mm (Hauser 3831; Wurzb. 2106); Spanische Reitischule in Wien [Spanish Riding School, Vienna], c. 1925, a uniface bronze medal by F. Kounitzky, 40mm (cf. DNW 49, 848); Germany, Carl Bosch Receives the Siemens-Ring, 1924, a bronze medal by A. Hartig, 70mm; Liechtenstein, Prince Franz I, 1935, a bronze medal by T. Gosen, 41mm [6]. Very fine and better, the third very rare (£70-90)

Adolf Ignatz Mautner von Markhof (1801-89), proprietor of the St Marx brewery, Vienna. Leo Reinisch (1832-1919), Professor of Egyptology, Vienna. Carl Bosch (1874-1940), chemist, worked first at BASF before becoming one of the founders of IG Farben in 1925; he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1931