Commemorative, Historical and Art Medals

Victoria, Death, 1901, medals (3), in light bronze by L.-C. Lauer, crowned bust left, rev. angel reclining, holding medallion, 65mm (W & E 1942.1; BHM 3689; E 1855B), in silver by the Mint, Birmingham, 39mm (W & E 1949.1; BHM 3691); in silver, unsigned (by L.-C. Lauer?), crowned bust left, victoria britt reg ind imp in left field, rev. royal arms with supporters, 35mm (W & E –; BHM –) [3]. Very fine to extremely fine, the second not listed in silver, the third apparently unrecorded in the main references £90-120

Whittlestone & Ewing list an unsigned uniface plaque attributed to Lauer which is stylistically very similar to the third medal (cf. W & E 1943)