Auction Catalogue

24 & 25 June 2003

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Ancient, British and World Coins, Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Historical and Art Medals, Numismatic Books and Banknotes

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

Lot

№ 1532

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25 June 2003

Hammer Price:
£80

France, Centenary of the École Polytechnique, Paris, 1894, a bronze medal by L.M. Bourgeois, similar, tablet named (Chove…1928-29), 68mm (CGMP p.65; PBE –; Coll. R. Marx 431; BDM –); La Victoire, 1908, a bronze award plaque by L. Cariat, Victory with arms raised, rev. hunting-horn and fern, 80 x 34mm (PBE 35; BDM VII, 152; CGMP p. 72; cf. DNW 44, 1002); together with a Paris mint copy of Pisanello's medal of Cecilia Gonzaga, rev. unicorn, 86mm (cf. Kress 17) [3]. First good very fine. others better (£60-80)