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France, Automobile-Club de l’Ouest, c.1935, an Art Deco silver award medal by M. Delannoy, standing robed female holding torch illuminating a map of the départements in north-west France, rev. coats of arms, legend in centre (Circuit de la Manche, au Gaz des Fôrets, Saint-Lô, 28-29 Mars 1937), 81mm (cf. DNW 58, 1568). Good very fine, very rare in silver (£150-200)

Provenance:
BDW Auction 13, 31 May 1995, lot 366.

Obverse only illustrated on the Plates