WORLD HISTORICAL MEDALS FROM VARIOUS PROPERTIES 3143
FRANCE, Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889, a bronze medal by L.A. Bottée, named (de Curzon), 63mm (PBE 9; ANS Exh. Cat. 1910, 15; BDM I, p.231); College Stanislas, 1914, a bronze medal by C.P. Pillet, 46mm; Mariage, 1895, a silver medal by L.-O. Roty, named (A.P. de Curzon and B. de Livron, 5 Octobre 1915), 37mm (Roty Compagnonnage p.92); Consecration of Sacre-Coeur, Montmartre, 1919, a bronze medal by H. Lefebvre, 50mm; Saint François d’Assise, 1936, a bronze medal by R. Cochet, 59mm (CGMP p.92; BM Acq. 1983-7, p.31, 78; cf. DNW 66, 1549); Croiser Georges Leygues, 1937, a bronze medal by G. Guiraud, 50mm (CGMP p.200); Cuirassé Richelieu, 1941, a bronze medal by G. Guiraud, 68mm (CGMP p.200; cf. DNW 61, 1376); together with baptismal medals (2, one in silver) [9]. Varied state, first in original leather pouch
£200-300 3144 3145 3146 3147 3148 3149
FRANCE, 50th Anniversary of the Invention of Photography, 1889, a silver medal by E.A. Soldi-Colbert, conjoined busts of Niepce and Daguerre right, rev. wreath, named (Ed. Guinand), 68mm. Possibly a later striking, extremely fine £80-100
FRANCE, Société Dunkerquoise pour l’Encouragement des Sciences, des Lettres et des Arts, a silver award medal by A. Lecomte, named (1891, Concours de Lettres, 2me Prix, Maurin Georges), 39mm; together with other silver award medals (10), 19th and 20th centuries [11]. Very fine to extremely fine
£100-120
FRANCE, Société des Régates du Havre, a silver award medal by A. Noel for Lecomte, edge named (Cutter “Decima”, J. J. Greenshields, 1891), 54mm; together with other silver award medals and plaques (5), for boxing, gymnastics, etc [6]. Very fine to extremely fine
£100-120
FRANCE, Association Polytechnique, a silver award medal, unsigned, named (Mlle. Delannoy Blanche, 1892), 44mm; together with other silver award medals (12), 19th and 20th centuries [13]. Very fine to extremely fine
£150-180
FRANCE, Ville de Poix, Concours de Tir, 1892, a silver award medal, unsigned, named (G. Paquet), 35mm; together with other French silver medals (5, one gilt), all 20th century [6]. Very fine to extremely fine
£120-150
FRANCE, Les Echecs, 1893, a uniface cast bronze plaque by A.-L.-M. Charpentier, girl right, left hand on forehead, right hand moving pieces on a chess board, 147 x 77mm (Coll. R. Marx 220). Very fine and very rare
£300-400 3150
FRANCE, Edmond de Goncourt, 1894, a uniface bronze plaque by A.-L.-M. Charpentier, bust left, 72 x 50mm (PBE –; Coll. R. Marx 255; CGMP p.82; BDM I, 411; cf. Baudey/Bricher 1992, 26). Very fine and very rare
£120-150
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