Auction Catalogue

1 March 2000

Starting at 1:00 PM

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Ancient, Celtic, British and World Coins. Historical and Art Medals. British and World Banknotes

The Regus Conference Centre  12 St James Square  London  SW1Y 4RB

Lot

№ 898

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1 March 2000

Hammer Price:
£65

WORLD ART MEDALS Russia, Leon Trotsky, c.1935, a uniface cast bronze portrait plaque by Marguerite Doucet-Clementz, bust left, 64 x 53mm. Very fine and patinated, very rare (£30-40)

Lev Davidovich Bronstein, aka Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), one of the leading theoreticians of the Bolshevik Party and a leader in the Russian Revolution, lived in France between 1933 and 1935. Marguerite Doucet-Clementz (b.1876), Strasbourg artist who exhibited in Paris and Geneva from 1914; the first work by her seen by the cataloguer