Coins, Paper Money, Tokens and Historical Medals

FRANCE, Compagnie Internationale d’Eclairage Eléctrique, 1885, a silver award medal, unsigned, named (Souvenir de Reconnaissance du Fondateur E.L. Naze à Lucien Gaulard), 50mm; Exposition et Congrès International des Applications de l’Électricité, 1908, a silver award medal by L. Dejean, named (Dr E. Heckel, Commissaire Général des Concours d’Horticulture), 54mm; Syndicat Général de la Construction Électrique, c. 1905, a silver award medal by C.P. Pillet, named (Mr Ch Zetter, Président du Syndicat, 1909-1910), 68mm (cf. DNW 70, 2561); together with other silver medals (2), both relating to electricity [5]. Very fine to extremely fine
£150-200

Lucien Gaulard (1850-88) was a pioneer in the transmission of electricity. Like Tesla, he worked with alternating current and, with his fellow inventor the Englishman John Dixon Gibbs, built a power transformer which was exhibited in London in 1881 and later sold to the American Westinghouse company. Loss of the patents covering his designs led to bouts of insanity and ultimately his premature death in 1888