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Sold on 17 December 2007

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World Art Medals from the Collection of Dr Stephen Martin

Stephen Martin

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№ 1493

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17 December 2007

Hammer Price:
£55

Austria, Baron Reinhart Bachofen von Echt, 1902, a New Year’s bronze plaque by F.X. Pawlik, male figure with winged helmet standing left on rock, surveying landscape, rev. signature of von Echt, 58 x 37mm (BDM IV, 438; cf. BM Acq. 1983-7, pl.9, 24, for rev.). Extremely fine and attractively patinated (£30-40)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, World Art Medals from the Collection of Dr Stephen Martin.

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Karl Adolf Freiherr Bachofen von Echt, brewing magnate and head of the Nussdorfer brewery, Vienna, established by his father-in-law, the industrialist Franz Xaver Bosch, in 1819