Auction Catalogue

15 March 2011

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Commemorative, Historical and Art Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 1680

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15 March 2011

Estimate: £100–£150

United States of America, First Non-stop Flight from New York to Paris, 1927, a bronze medal by E.P. Blin for Teterger, bust of Charles Lindbergh right, rev. Spirit of St Louis monoplane above hand holding torch, 67mm (cf. DNW M7, 2473); Curtiss-Wright Corporation, Airplane Division, Buffalo, NY, 1942, a bronze Production Award medal, unsigned, 76mm; Dwight Eisenhower Inaugurated as President, 1957, a bronze medal by G. Roberts, 76mm; Lyndon Johnson Appointed President, 1963, a bronze medal by G. Roberts, 76mm; Lyndon Johnson Inaugurated as President, 1965, a bronze medal by F. de Weloon, 70mm; Richard Nixon Inaugurated as President, 1969, a bronze medal by F. Gasparro, 76mm; together with other miscellaneous USA medals (29), subjects including General Holland M. Smith, William McKinley, James Madison, Walt Whitman, William Howard Taft, Borg-Warner Trophy (Indianapolis 500), etc [35]. Lindbergh and Nixon medals fine, former with damage to obverse surface, others very fine and better £100-150