Medals Related To Canals and Shipping from the Stanley Holland Collection

Netherlands, Canal de Mons à Condé, 1813, a bronze award medal by N.G.A. Brenet, Fortuna seated left, rev. wreath, un-named, 41mm (Bramsen 1294); Canal de Mons à Tournai, 1826, bronze medals by J.-P. Braemt (2), both 50mm (Dirks 283; BDM I, 261); Inauguration du Canal de Gand à Terneuzen, 1827, a bronze medal by J.-P. Braemt, 46mm (Dirks 297; BDM I, 261; cf. Elsen 102, 1790); Opening van het Sluis het Haarlemmermeer Inland [Opening of the Locks on the Inland Haarlem Sea], 1853, a bronze medal by M.C. de Vries, 51mm (BDM VI, 323) [5]. One 1826 medal about very fine, others about extremely fine and better, particularly the last £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals Related To Canals and Shipping from the Stanley Holland Collection.

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Provenance: Second C. Hadfield Collection, Glendining Auction, 17 November 1988, lot 364 (part); third and fourth K.F. Traanberg Collection, DNW Auction 13, 31 May 1995, lots 1158, 1160; *fifth DNW Auction 13, 31 May 1995, lot 677