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South Africa, Visit of the Prince of Wales to Umtata, Tembuland, 1925, a white metal medal, unsigned, bust left, rev. arms and supporters, 32mm (W & E –); Visit of the Prince of Wales to Cape Town, 1925, copper medals (3), 32mm (2) (W & E 1A), 28mm (W & E 1C); together with other South African and Rhodesian medals (32, four in silver), mostly for Coronations, Jubilees, Peace celebrations, etc, from Johannesburg, Pietermaritzburg, Burghersdorp, Grahamstown, Cape Town, King William’s Town,...
Hammer Price: £180
United States of America, International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876, a bronze medal by H. Mitchell, seated figure holding wreath, rev. AWARDED BY UNITED STATES CENTENNIAL COMMISSION, 76mm (Julian p.283, AM10; BDM VIII, 67; cf. DNW 66, 1607). Extremely fine, but obverse dulled and with test mark on edge (£60-80)
Hammer Price: £30
United States of America, Wilsons Botschaft, Die 14 Punkte [America’s Peace Terms, the 14 Points], 1918, a cast bronze medal by K. Goetz, half-length figure of President Wilson holding tablet with 14 bullet points, rev. American eagle with scales and four supplementary points, 58mm (K 203; Frankenhuis 1479). Good very fine (£50-70)
Hammer Price: £55
United States of America, The Completion of the Ambassador Bridge, Detroit, 1930, an Art Deco bronze plaque signed J.M.S. for the Medallic Art Co, robed female with arms outstretched, holding the shields of the United States and Canada, rev. compliments of j.a. bower, 101 x 70mm, engraved 7/50 on lower reverse. About very fine, rare (£90-120)
Hammer Price: £220
United States of America, Apollo XI Astronauts Land on the Moon, 1969, silver medals (4), all different, including one with the bust of Wernher von Braun, 50mm [4]. Brilliant (£30-40)
Hammer Price: £25
United States of America, The New York Stock Exchange, 1982, a light bronze medal by J.A. di Lorenzo, elevation of the Exchange, rev. bull and bear, 76mm. As struck; in case of issue (£15-25)
Hammer Price: £10
United States of America, Libertas Americana, 2000, a restrike in gold by the Monnaie de Paris of the original medal by B. Dupré, bust of Liberty left with cap, rev. Minerva repelling the attack of the British lion, infant Hercules strangling serpents below, 46mm, 64.18g, edge stamped 259/500 (cf. Betts 615). Brilliant (£600-700)
Hammer Price: £620
[Anon], Catalogue Générale Illustré des Éditions de la Monnaie de Paris, I, De l’Antiquité a Louis XVI, 407pp; II, De la 1ère a la 3e République, 333pp; III, La Troisième République, 447pp; IV, Parts I-III, de 1945 à nos jours, Paris, 1979, 2,105pp; IV, Mise à jour, 1979-1985, Paris, 1986, 819pp; V, Index Thématique, 247pp, Paris, 1977+, all except last extensively illustrated in text [8]. A very fine and clean set of this essential reference on French medals (£150-200)
Hammer Price: £120
[Anon], Catalogue Générale Illustré des Éditions de la Monnaie de Paris, IV, Parts I-III, de 1945 à nos jours, Paris, 1979, 2,105pp; Part IV, Mise à jour, 1979-1985, Paris, 1986, 819pp, all extensively illustrated in text [4]. Working copies; essential for French art medals (£40-60)
£40–£60
A.H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd [London], Commemorative Medals, FPLs (9), 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998 (2), 1999 (2), 2000 (2); Timothy Millett Ltd [London], Historical Medals and Works of Art, FPL 2001 [10]. All very fine copies of these useful references (£20-30)
£20–£30
Brown, L., British Historical Medals 1760-1960, vols. 1-3, London, 1980-95, xxvi + 469pp, xxiii + 516pp, xxi + 413pp, illustrations in text, djs [3]. Publishers’ cloth, djs; a very fine and clean set with only a minor incision on the inside of the dj on vol. I (£150-200)
Hammer Price: £230
Hieronymussen, P., Orders, Medals and Decorations of Britain and Europe, 1st edn, London, 1966, 256pp including 80 colour plates, dj; Hawkins, E., and others, Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and Ireland to the Death of George II, 2 vols [1885], London, 1978, xxxii + 724, 866pp; Payne, A.A., A Handbook of British and Foreign Orders, War Medals and Decorations awarded to the Army and Navy, [1910], London, 1981, lxix + 811pp, some illustrations in text; Grimshaw, Margaret...
Hammer Price: £45
Jones, M., The Art of the Medal, London, 1979, 192pp, illustrations in text; Hardy, T.A., Nelson Commemorative Medals 1797-1905, North Walsham, 1985, vii + 40pp, illustrations in text; other references (2), by Fearon and Eimer [4]. Working copies (£10-15)
Hammer Price: £15
Karl Kress [Munich], Auktion 115, Sammlung Marie Luise Goppel, Joachimsthaler Medaillen, Reformation…Krieg und Frieden…Literatur, 3-5 October 1960, 5,922 lots, 72 plates. Green cloth with protective sleeve, a very fine copy of this important sale; original bid slip tipped-in (£30-40)
£30–£40
The Medal [Journal of the British Art Medal Society, London], Nos. 9, 11, 15, 17, 21-3, 24 (2), 25 (3), 26 (2), 27 (2), 28 (2), 29 (2), 30 (2), 31 (2), 32, 33, 34 (2), 35 (2), 36 (2), 37 (2), 40, 43, 44 (1986-Spring 2004); Index to Nos.11-20 [38]. A good run of this publication, but cover of No.17 torn (£60-80)
Hammer Price: £50
Pinches, J.H., Medals by John Pinches, A Catalogue of Works struck by the Company from 1840 to 1969, London, 1987, xiv + 271pp, illustrations in text. Publishers’ green cloth, dj; virtually as new (£30-40)
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