Commemorative, Historical and Art Medals

France, Femmes Prévisionnel, c. 1920, a uniface bronze plaque by P.-C. Lenoir, standing robed female indicating the future to another robed female seated at quay-side, cityscape and mountains in background, exergue named (A M. Albert Mahieu, Senateur, Souvenir reconnaissant de la Mission Canadienne en France, 1923), 148 x 118mm. Graze at right, otherwise very fine and very rare £50-70

Provenance: DNW Auction M5, 17 December 2007, lot 1627.

Albert Mahieu (1864-1943), politician, served as a senator for the département of Nord from 1924 to 1940 and was briefly Ministre de l’Intérieur in 1932 in André Tardieu’s government