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France, Compagnie des Chemins de Fer de l’Est, c.1910, a silver medal by F.-C.-V. de Vernon, female allegorical figure riding on buffers of a steam locomotive, reverse train emerging from a tunnel into a landscape, 40mm (Moyaux 277bis; PBE 984; BM Acq. 1983-7, p.26, 159; cf. Swan 290-1; cf. DNW 33, 363). Extremely fine (£40-60)

The traditional attribution of this medal to Frédéric de Vernon (1858-1912) may be in some doubt; the style of the locomotive on the obverse may indicate a post-War design, which infers the medallist was his son Jean Vernon (1897-1975)