Auction Catalogue

4 October 2001

Starting at 1:00 PM

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Ancient, Celtic, British and World Coins. Historical and Art Medals

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

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№ 1243

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4 October 2001

Estimate: £800–£1,000

Great Britain, A group of four Olympic medals attributed to W.H. Levy:
Olympic Games, London, 1908, silver and bronze Participant’s medals, by B. Mackennal for Vaughton, Fame standing on globe, holding trumpet and palm-branch, rev. quadriga left, both 50mm (BHM 3963; E 1904; Peers, The Medal 23, p.31, fig.2); Olympic Games, Paris, 1924, a bronze Participant’s medal by R. Bénard, winged figure crowns athlete, rev. city view in cartouche, legend below, 55mm (cf. DNW 44, 993); Olympic Games, Berlin, 1936, a silver medal by K. Roth for the Bavarian Hauptmünzamt, standing robed female holding spray and wreath, rev. Prussian eagle on bell, 36mm [4]. Very fine and a rare group (£800-1,000)

Sold with a signed photograph of Levy and a group of his fellow participants at the 1908 Games, four souvenir postcards depicting different scenes of the 1924 Games, and a souvenir postcard of the Reichssportfeld, the principal venue for the 1936 Games. Worthy of further research.

Obverses of the 1908 silver and 1936 medals only illustrated above; also see Colour Plate VIII