Auction Catalogue

3 February 1999

Starting at 1:00 PM

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Ancient, British and World Coins, Tokens, and Historical Medals

The Arts Club  40 Dover St  London  W1S 4NP

Lot

№ 520

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3 February 1999

Hammer Price:
£25

France, First World War, Les Chars d’Assaut, 1918, a bronze award medal by P.-A. Morlon, tank advancing through a landscape of barbed wire, being urged on by semi-naked female figure, reverse floral border, un-named, 68mm (CGMP p.270; Frankenhuis p.254, 35; Jones, Art of the Medal, 416; V&A Exh. Cat. 1998, 6; cf. DNW 38, 789). About extremely fine (£30-40)