Auction Catalogue

11 December 2002

Starting at 12:00 PM

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English, Scottish and World Coins. Tokens, Tickets and Passes. Historical and Art Medals. World Banknotes

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

Lot

№ 792

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11 December 2002

Hammer Price:
£170

France, Camille Legrand, c.1905, a cast bronze electrotype plaque by I. Rouchomowsky, bust right, rev. frontal elevation of a building on a street corner, 91 x 57mm. Very fine and extremely rare (£60-80)

Israel Rouchomowsky, a goldsmith from Odessa, gained considerable notoriety as a first-class imitator of antique jewellery in the 1890s. He made the famous ‘Tiare de Saïtaphernes’ purchased by the Louvre in 1896. The French government of the time invited him to come from Russia to demonstrate his manufacturing techniques and he settled in Paris, exhibiting a variety of sculptures and plaques at the Salons from 1904