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WORLD ART MEDALS France, Brittany, Tad and Mamm Cooz Pennec, a pair of uniface cast bronze portrait plaquettes by André Schwab, c. 1910, issued by Canale, 65 x 75mm (Cat. Gen. V.S. Canale, 268 and 269; Classens [Medailleurs Contemporains] text and plates) [2]. About extremely fine, scarce (£50-70)

The portraits are of two elderly Breton countrywomen, one wearing a characteristic peasant cap. Both are fine studies, full of character. One illustrated.