Historical and Art Medals, Numismatic Books

France, Camille Flammarion and the 25th Anniversary of the Société Astronomique de France, 1911, a uniface Art Nouveau bronze plaque by A. Zeitlin, half-length figure of Flammarion attended by two winged figures, spherical object to left, castle to right, 84 x 80mm (PBE 1032; BDM VI, 725; cf. DNW 46, 800). Extremely fine and attractively patinated, very rare (£70-90)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Art Medals formed by Hans-P. Wipfler.

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Plate XVI. Camille Flammarion (1842-1925), French astronomer and popular writer on astronomy, author of Astronomie Populaire, first published in 1880. He founded the Société Astronomique de France in 1887; though executed in 1911, this plaque was not issued until the following year