Coins, Historical Medals and Antiquities

FRANCE, Amour Maternel, 1912, bronze medals by O. Yencesse for Canale (2), first on behalf of Le Comité National de l’Enfance, mother kissing her baby who sleeps in her arms, revs. flowering violet, first named (À Mme Parmentier, 1933), 50mm and 27mm (Maier 198; Coll. R. Marx 157; Classens 82; BM Acq. 1978-82, p.50, 205; BDM VI, 698; cf. DNW 187, 785) [2]. Softly executed in this artist’s familiar style, about very fine and better but some staining to first £50-£70