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Italy, The 25th Anniversary of the Founding of the Kingdom of Italy, 1895, a plated pewter medal by Marcelle Crocé-Lancelot, conjoined busts of Victor Emanuel II and Umberto I right, reverse two robed figures embracing, soldiers in front of buildings in background, 60mm (Coll. R. Marx 393, this piece; BDM III, 286, and VII, 530, this piece listed). Scratch on face of Victor Emanuel and test cut on obverse edge at 12 o’clock, otherwise about very fine and very rare; with the reversed RM monogram of Marx stamped below the legend in the exergue on the reverse (£30-40)

Marcelle Renée Crocé-Lancelot (b. Paris, 1854), studied under her father Dieudonné Lancelot and Ponscarme; by the turn of the century, working in Rome, she was one of Italy’s leading medallists, although she had moved to Epernay by 1905