Auction Catalogue

15 December 2005

Starting at 9:30 AM

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Historical and Art Medals

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

Lot

№ 1587

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15 December 2005

Hammer Price:
£60

General von Beseler and the Fall of Antwerp, 1914, a silver medal by R. Küchler and H. Grunthal, facing bust, rev. naked male with standard climbing city wall, 34mm (Frankenhuis 517; BDM VII, 522; cf. DNW 60, 1636); General von Kluck, 1914, a silver medal by A. Löwental for Ball, bust three-quarters right, rev. naked figure on horseback left, 34mm (cf. DNW 37, 1319); General Hindenburg and the Liberation of East Prussia, 1914, a silver medal by L.-C. Lauer, bust almost facing, rev. naked warrior subjugating the Russian bear, 34mm (Frankenhuis 577) [3]. Very fine (£50-60)