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

№ 1539

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25 June 2003

Hammer Price:
£85

France, Exposition Universelle Internationale, Paris, 1900, a bronze medal by J.-B. Daniel-Dupuis, robed female symbolising History inscribing the date on a tablet held by a naked boy, rev. monnaie de paris, winged Genius brandishing torch and leaning on a coining press, 50mm (PBE 317; CGMP pp.172-3; BDM I, 666; Coll. R. Marx 310; cf. DNW 50, 1213); Death of Capt. Georges Guynemer, 1917, a bronze medal by J.-P. Legastelois, bust left in heavily bemedalled uniform, rev. Archangel supporting a tablet and flanked by storks, 68mm (CGMP p.234; BM Acq. 1983-7, p.21, 81; cf. DNW 49, 1058); Lt.-Col. Baron Jacques, 1921, a bronze plaque by E.-J. de Brémaecker, bust left, rev. arms, 70 x 47mm (BDM VIII, 320; cf. DNW 38, 681); Lt.-Gen. H. Jurgbluth, a uniface bronze plaque by E.-J. de Brémaecker, bust left in uniform, 63 x 49mm; Ysser, a silver medal, named (Clovis Roisin), 65mm; together with other miscellaneous base metal medals (11, one an electrotype) [16]. Varied state (£40-60)