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France, Société Centrale des Architectes, 1848, a silver award medal by E.-A. Oudiné, seated female figure holding a pair of dividers, reverse legend, named (Médaille d’Honneur, Fondation Guerinot, M. Pierre Sardou, Architecte à Paris, 1952), 70mm (BDM IV, 347-8; cf. Coll. R. Marx 507). Almost extremely fine (£40-60)

Medal first exhibited at the Paris Salon, 1848; the Société was founded in 1843