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France, Les Jeunes Enfants or Ronde Enfantine, 1903, a silver plaque by C.-P. Pillet for the SAMF, mother lying on ground with book, cuddling her child, rev. four children dancing in a circle, edge stamped 52, 66 x 53mm (Coll. R. Marx 113; PBE 715; BDM IV, 537). Extremely fine, an attractive and charming plaque £100-150
Hammer Price: £240
France, Le Rêve du Travailleur, 1905, a silver medal by J.V.J.A. Ségoffin for the SAMF, naked workman sat under a tree, sailing boat and rising sun behind, rev. death of the workman, other figures seated and kneeling around, edge stamped 51, 68mm (Coll. R. Marx 121; BDM V, 463). Extremely fine, rare £100-150
Hammer Price: £230
Great Britain, Frederick, Prince of Wales, c. 1750, a copper medal by J.A. Dassier, bust left, rev. coronet of feathers supported by two cherubs above clouds, 55mm (MI II, 660/366; E 631); Death of Princess Charlotte, 1817, a ‘mule’ copper medal by T. Webb for Thomason, 54mm (BHM 939; E 1096 var); Sir Walter Scott, 1824, a white metal medal by W. Wyon for Thomason, 54mm (BHM 1238; Brodie 249, this piece); 80th Birthday of Thomas Carlyle, 1875, a copper medal by G.T. Morgan, 51mm (BHM...
Hammer Price: £210
United States of America, Charles Lindbergh, c. 1930, a uniface plated bronze plaque signed O.W. for Fisch, bust right, 63 x 50mm, back engraved (à Monsieur Darsac, rédacteur en chef du Soir, avec tous les remerciements de M. Wolf et O. Neuman), 63 x 51mm (cf. DNW 64, 1473). Extremely fine and rare, a powerful Art Déco image £100-150
Germany, Drei Grafen von Spee [Deaths of the three Counts von Spee], 1914, a cast bronze medal by K. Goetz, facing busts of Heinrich, Maximilian and Otto von Spee above legend, rev. eagle preparing to mark a watery grave with a branch, 103mm (K 146; Frankenhuis 529; BDM VII, 382; Hill 13). Extremely fine, rare £150-200
Hammer Price: £200
France, À la Guerre, 1919, a uniface bronze plaque by H. Navarre, advancing infantrymen, one holding hand grenade, urged forward by winged Victory, 160 x 148mm (Frankenhuis –; cf. BDM VIII, p.90). Extremely fine and rare, a powerful image £70-90
Hammer Price: £190
France, Exposition Coloniale Internationale, Paris, 1931, a bronze medal by L. Bazor, Marianne greets figures representing North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa and Indo-China, rev. plan of the Expo, 68mm (CGMP p.30; cf. DNW M7, 2474); Construction, or Tailleurs de Pierre, 1934, a uniface bronze plaque by L. Burger, 72 x 53mm (CGMP p.69; cf. DNW 56, 822); together with other medals and plaques (6), by Anie Mouroux, Baron, Delannoy, Grun, etc [8]. Very fine and better; one in case of issue £120-150
Hammer Price: £180
France, Inauguration of the Prisons de Fresnes-lès-Rungis, 1898, a silver plaque by L.-O. Roty, triptych of views inside the prison, rev. rehabilitated prisoner with his wife and baby walking away from the prison, 80 x 59mm (Roty Compagnonnage p.91; Coll. R. Marx 76; PBE 871; Classens 39; BDM V, 238-9; Jones, Art of the Medal, 324; Baxter 37; ANS Exh. Cat. 1910, p.269, 41). Extremely fine £100-150
Hammer Price: £170
France, Construction du Métropolitain Municipal de Paris, 1912, a bronze plaque by F.-C.-V. de Vernon, two standing figures by plinth, aerial view of Paris in background, rev. passengers disembarking from a Métro train, 90 x 70mm (PBE 992; Maier 172; Moyaux –; BDM –). Extremely fine, rare £100-150
France, 50e Anniversaire de la Fondation de la Maison Christofle, 1892, a plated bronze portion of the triptych plaque by L.-O. Roty, figure of Industry, rev. metal-worker, 57 x 28mm (Roty Compagnonnage p.89); Orphée, 1899, a bronze medal by M.-A.-L. Coudray (Offert par Musica, Tournoi International, 1903), 68mm (CGMP p.100; BM Acq 1983-1987, p.18, 28); Inauguration of the Bains d’Evian, 1902, a plated bronze plaque by F.-C.-V. de Vernon, 64 x 44mm (PBE 975; BM Acq. 1978-82, pl.50, 193;...
Hammer Price: £160
Germany, Novembersturm [The Storms of November], 1918, a cast bronze medal by K. Goetz, naval rating kicking Kaiser across a border marker into a field of Dutch tulips, rev. symbolic Hohenzollern tree battered by storms of revolution, 58mm (K 232; Frankenhuis 1488). Extremely fine £80-100
Great Britain, William Wellesley Pole, Lord Maryborough, 1823, a copper medal by B. Pistrucci [on behalf of the moneyers at the Royal Mint], bust right, rev. legend in 19 lines, 51mm (BHM 1211; E 1167). About extremely fine £70-90
Hammer Price: £150
Germany, Wie Siegfried der Held den Baeren band [How Siegfried the Hero bound the Bear], 1915, a bronze medal by A. Löwental, bust of Field-Marshal von Hindenburg three-quarters left, rev. Siegfried binding the Russian bear, 100mm (Frankenhuis 712-13). Extremely fine £100-150
Great Britain, The Naval Gold Medal, 1796, large size, a working red wax positive impression; The Army Gold Medal, 1810, large size, a similar working wax; together with a working wax or composite impression of a standing Britannia by Pingo, 51mm (Eimer 149) [3]. Varied state, damaged £100-150
Hammer Price: £140
Great Britain, Great Exhibition, Hyde Park, 1851, Prize Medal, a bois durci impression of the obv. of the award by W. Wyon and J.F. Domard, conjoined busts of Victoria and Prince Albert left, trident and dolphins in field, edge named (Marshall & Co, Class XIV), 74mm (Allen A34; BHM 2462; E 1456). Extremely fine; in white card box £50-100
Hammer Price: £130
Great Britain, Henry Somerset Created 1st Duke of Beaufort, 1682, a thin lead squeeze of the obv. of the medal by J. Roettiers, armoured bust right, no legend, 59mm (MI I, 589/267). A split occurs downwards following the hair, otherwise about very fine £150-200
Hammer Price: £120
Great Britain, Richard Mead, 1775, a soft-metal impression of the rev. of the medal by L. Pingo, 40mm (Eimer 51 and note); George III, c. 1775, a soft-metal impression of the ‘Standing Liberty’ rev., 40mm (Eimer 54, and note; cf. BHM 265, suggesting a possible American connection); Scholastic Medal, c. 1780, a soft-metal impression of the obv. of the medal by L. Pingo, 38mm (Eimer 58, and note); University of Cambridge, Norrisian Medal, 1781, soft-metal impressions of the obv. and rev....
Great Britain, Voyage of HMS Challenger, 1895, a uniface copper-washed cast of the obv. for the medal, unsigned, Neptune crowning head of Athena, dolphins and mermaids around, 77mm (cf. DNW 40, 652). Two piercings for suspension, otherwise very fine; in a brown fitted case £40-60
China, The Holm Expedition to Shensi, 1921, a bronze medal by A. Bruce-Joy, bust of Frits Holm right, rev. legend in six lines, sun above, Chinese characters around, 64mm, edge stamped 112 (BM Acq. 1978-82, p.79, 14). Extremely fine, rare £80-100
France, Paul-Michel Perret, 1895, a cast bronze medal by L.-O. Roty, bust three-quarters right, rev. view of the Perret hospice, 98mm (Roty Compagnonnage p.93; Coll. R. Marx –; PBE –). Extremely fine and very rare £90-120
France, Réconstitution de Mines de Lens, 1929, a silver plaque by L.-O. Roty and H. Lefebvre, miner with pick-axe at coal face, rev. view of the mine buildings, devastation from the War destruction in foreground, 67 x 47mm (cf. Roty Compagnnonage p.92; cf. PBE 877). Extremely fine, rare; in fitted green case of issue £90-120
Great Britain, David Lloyd George, 1919, a uniface bronze medal by F. Gilbault for Paris-Art, bust left, 106mm (BDM VII, p.361). About extremely fine, a softly-modelled and sympathetic study, very rare £90-120
Hammer Price: £100
Great Britain, Soft-metal impressions of medals (7), viz. Queen Anne, by G. Hautsch, 38mm; Salford Agricultural Society, 48mm; Agricultural Prize, 30mm, label on rev. reads "Bank Münich, C Rumford 1799"; Music Prize, labia scientiae vas pretiosvm, 35mm; Prize, seated Hercules, hvc ades et genivm…43mm; Agricultural Prize, by J. Morikofer, hinc felicitas, 45mm; Apothecaries Society, by W. Wyon, no legend, 44mm; together with a religious box medal in tin, 33mm, and an incuse impression of...
France, Quatercentenary of the Founding of the Collège de France, 1930, an Art Déco bronze medal by P. Turin, female head with torch, rev. monument to Guillaume Budé, 68mm (CGMP p.378; cf. Simmons FPL 9, 280). Extremely fine; in original buff card box of issue £120-150
France, Musique de Chambre, 1907, a silver award medal by C.P. Pillet, young ladies playing violin and piano, rev. naked figure of girl listening to naked boy playing flute, tablet named (Madame Le Combe), 50mm (PBE 716; CGMP p.315; BM Acq. 1983-7, p.23, 112; cf. DNW 51, 1155). About extremely fine; in red fitted case £70-90
Hammer Price: £90
France, Honoré de Balzac, 1933, a silver medal by L. Patriarche, bust left, rev. comedic mask, 68mm (CGMP p.304; cf. BDW 7, 853). Good very fine, rare £70-90
Great Britain, Royal Horticultural Society, Banksian award medal by W. Wyon, in silver, bust of Joseph Banks right, rev. legend, named (Presented to John Sudlow, Esq, for Braddick’s American Peach, Exhibited September 18th, 1821), 38mm (BHM 1041; E 1138). Graze on truncation and minor obverse rim nick, otherwise about extremely fine, reverse better, toned, an early award £50-70
Hammer Price: £85
France, Enseignement Primaire, a silver award medal by J.B.E. Farochon, standing female laureates two teachers, each instructing a cluster of infant pupils, rev. eagle in wreath, edge named (Mr. Jh. Rebiere, Inst 1re. à Longjumeau (Seine et Oise) 1868-69), 52mm. Extremely fine and attractively toned, scarce; in original wooden circular box £70-90
Hammer Price: £80
France, War Memorial Erected, Nice, 1928, an Art Déco bronze medal by A. Lavrillier after A. Janniot, warrior clasping sword, head of wild boar behind, rev. the memorial, 72mm (Classens 104; Maier 315; V &A Exh. Cat. 1998, 53). Good very fine £100-150
Austria, 50th Anniversary of the Genossenschaft de Bildenden Kunstler [Society of Artists], Vienna, 1911, a uniface bronze Art Déco plaque by A. Hartig, head of Mercury right, holding a naked figure of Victory, 80 x 72mm (Hauser –; BDM VII, 420; cf. DNW 70C, 2429). Strong Déco style, good very fine £100-150
Hammer Price: £75
France, Exposition Internationale d’Éléctricité, Paris, 1881, a bronze award medal by L.-O. Roty [struck 1882], robed figure of La Science above a globe, rev. legend, palm and laurel branches at left, un-named, 80mm (Roty Compagnnonage p.90; Maier 91; Coll. R. Marx 4; BM Acq. 1978-82, p.47, 158). Extremely fine and lightly patinated £50-70
France, Léonce Hély d’Oissel, Président de la Société Générale, 1914, a silver plaque by D.P. Puech, bust left, rev. legend in 9 lines, 75 x 60mm. About extremely fine, rare; in brown fitted case of issue £50-70
Germany, Bismarck, 20 Jahre nach meinem Tode [20th Anniversary of the Death of Bismarck], 1918, a cast bronze medal by K. Goetz, head appearing from clouds, rev. figure representing a Social Democrat mounting a horse, draped figure of Germany averting her eyes, 58mm (K 216; Frankenhuis 1491); together with other European medals (2), by Devreese and Huguenin [3]. About extremely fine £50-70
France, 70th Birthday of Charles Hermite, 1892, a bronze medal by J.-C. Chaplain, bust right, rev. legend in 15 lines, palm branch to left, 99mm (PBE 56; BM Acq. 1978-82, p.39, 31; BDM I, 403). Extremely fine, patinated £60-80
Hammer Price: £70
France, La Parure, 1925, an octagonal bronze Art Deco repoussé plaque by P. Turin for La Gerbe d’Or, three female figures, one standing naked at front, 81mm (Classens 131; cf. Baudey/Bricher 1992, 123; The Medal 44, p.50; cf. DNW M2, 2689). Extremely fine; with original maroon cord for suspension £90-120
United States of America, Ulysses S. Grant, 1868, a copper medal by H. Bovy, bust left, rev. legend, 60mm (BDM I, 249). About extremely fine £40-60
Great Britain, Queen Charlotte, c. 1762, an incuse red wax impression from a large medallic portrait by Pingo, 95 x 79mm (Eimer 232, this piece). Fine £30-40
Hammer Price: £60
Great Britain, Opening of Crystal Palace, 1854, a white metal medal by Pinches, bust of Joseph Paxton left, rev. elevation of the Palace, 42mm (Allen 75 and 125; BHM 2553); together with an aluminium advertising medal of John Pinches, 44mm [2]. Virtually as struck; first in brass case of issue £40-60
Great Britain, Harrogate, 1936, a silver and enamel Freeman’s badge by J. Dixon & Sons, arms of the borough, back inscribed (Presented by Mrs David Simpson to perpetuate the memory of Harrogate’s first Freeman, Alderman David Simpson, JP, Mayor of Harrogate 1895/6, 1901/2, 1922/23, 1923/24); with Freeman of Harrogate bar, named (To Alderman Richard Annakin, JP), hallmarked Birmingham 1936, 80 x 44mm. Extremely fine, attractive £50-70
Belgium, Capture of Namur, 1914, a silver medal by R. Küchler, bust of General von Gallwitz right, rev. German soldiers with cannon trained on Namur, 50mm, edge stamped ds10 (Frankenhuis 502; BDM VII, 522; cf. DNW 38, 659). Extremely fine £50-70
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