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

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Lot

№ 1641

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15 December 2005

Hammer Price:
£50

Alliance Française, 1894 [struck 1898], a silver-gilt award medal by J.-B. Daniel Dupuis, seated female figure of France instructs a group of four young children emblematic of the colonies, ship at sea in background, rev. tablet on a book, decorated with a spray of laurel, named (Mr A. Sarradin, Versailles, 1921), 68mm (PBE 308; CGMP p.172; BDM I, 665; cf. DNW 49, 892). About extremely fine, rare (£60-80)

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