Medals Related To Canals and Shipping from the Stanley Holland Collection

Netherlands, Opening van het Noordsee-Kanaal, 1876, bronze medals by E.L. Geerts for the Amsterdamsche Kanaal Maatschappij (2), bust of William III right, revs. legend, both 26mm (BDM II, 235); Eeuwfeest van Onafhankelijkheid, Rotterdam [Independence Centenary], 1913, medals by J.J. van Goor (3), in silver and bronze, both 60mm, and in gilt-bronze for schoolchildren, 29mm (Begeer 1060-1); Voltooing der Werken op de Kanaal van Gent-Terneuzen [Completion of the Reconstruction of the Ghent-Terneuzen Canal], 1913, a bronze medal, unsigned, 50mm (cf. Elsen 101, 1649) [6]. About very fine and better £50-70

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: Rotterdam medals DNW Auction 13, 31 May 1995, lot 819