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France, Victor and Thérèse Canale, 1927, a hexagonal bronze plaque by H. Dropsy for Canale, half-length portrait of Victor Canale facing, holding a portrait medal with the bust of Thérèse on it, reverse two medallions above legend in five lines, 60 x 52mm (Dropsy Exh. Cat. 1964, –; Classens 15). Extremely fine and very rare (£70-100)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Art Medals formed by Christian Christensen.

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Struck to commemorate the centenary of the medal manufacturing business at 37 quai de l’Horloge, Paris, started by C. Durant in 1827, which passed to Auguste Godard and thence to Victor Canale in 1912. Both Godard and Canale first made their names by publishing medals by Oscar Roty; Canale soon extended his oeuvre by publishing medals for Dropsy, Desvignes, Schwab and others before the outbreak of World War I and by the mid-1920s was responsible for a wide range of issues by the French medallists of the day.

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