Auction Catalogue

14 December 2004

Starting at 9:30 AM

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Ancient, British and World Coins and Banknotes

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

Lot

№ 1334

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14 December 2004

Estimate: £90–£120

Belgium, Rufin Schockaert, 1932, a bronze medal by A. Jorissen, bust right, rev. standing figure, bull at feet, 70mm; France, Léon Thoinot, 1907, a bronze medal by J.B. Champeil, bust right, rev. legend in four lines, 54mm (BDM –); Death of Jean Sicard, 1929, a bronze plaque by P.-A. Morlon, bust three-quarters left, rev. legend in 11 lines, 73 x 65mm; Raymond-Jacques Sabouraud, 1929, a bronze medal by A. Pommier, bust left, rev. Hôpital Saint-Louis, 60mm (cf. DNW 60, 1603); Clément Simon, 1947, a bronze medal by H. Dropsy, bust right, rev. Simon with medical students around a patient’s bed, dog and slippers at feet, 68mm (Dropsy Exh. Cat. 1964, 195); Albert Touraine, 1948, a bronze medal by H. Dropsy, bust left, rev. Hôpital Saint-Louis, 68mm (Dropsy Exh. Cat. 1964, 204); Switzerland, 70th Birthday of Hermann Sahli, 1926, a bronze medal by A. Huguenin Dumittan, bust left in high relief, rev. Sahli with medical students around a patient’s bed, 70mm; 70th Birthday of Bruno Galli-Valerio, 1937, a bronze medal by Huguenin, bust right, rev. legend in 11 lines, 50mm [8]. Generally very fine, but Sicard plaque with edge nicks (£90-120)

Provenance:
Second bt Seaby 1981
Last bt Galerie des Monnaies.

Prof. Rufin Schockaert (1875-1953); Léon Thoinot (1858-1915); Jean Athanase Sicard (1872-1929), physician and radiologist in Marseille and Paris; Raymond-Jacques Adrien Sabouraud (1864-1938), dermatologist; Albert Touraine (1883-1961), dermatologist; Hermann Sahli (1856-1933), hæmatologist, Berne; Bruno Galli-Valerio (1867-1943), professor of medicine, Lausanne