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France, Camille Flammarion and the 25th anniversary of the société astronomique de france, 1911, a uniface Art Nouveau bronze plaque by A. Zeitlin, half-length figure of Flammarion attended by two winged figures, spherical object to left, castle to right, 84 x 80mm (PBE 1032; BDM VI, 725). Good very fine, very rare (£80-100)

Camille Flammarion (1842-1925), French astronomer and popular writer on astronomy, author of Astronomie Populaire, first published in 1880. He founded the Société Astronomique de France in 1887; though executed in 1911, this plaque was not issued until the following year.

Alexandre Zeitlin, sculptor and medallist from Tiflis, Russia, worked in Paris in the early years of the 20th century