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France, Inauguration of the Prisons de Fresnes-lès-Rungis, 1898, a bronze plaque by L.-O. Roty, triptych of views inside the prison, rev. rehabilitated prisoner with his wife and baby walking away from the prison, 80 x 59mm (Roty Compagnonnage p.91; Coll. R. Marx 76; PBE 871; Classens 39; BDM V, 238-9; Jones, Art of the Medal, 324; Baxter 37; ANS Exh. Cat. 1910, p.269, 41; cf. DNW 47, 868). About extremely fine, patinated (£40-50)